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# underwood

«underwood» in Mova's school dictionary: **Low bushes and shrubs growing under the tall trees of a wood** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (no plural) (an old word)

### meaning for a pupil

Low bushes and shrubs growing under the tall trees of a wood. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/underwood/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

in old tales, the thick low growth where foxes, hares and other creatures hide

### examples

- The fox crept into the underwood. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/underwood/#x1)
- The hare lay hidden in the underwood. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/underwood/#x2)
- We lost the path in the underwood. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/underwood/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «underwood» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/underwood/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.