undergrowth

n.

1. Low-growing plants, saplings, and shrubs beneath trees in a forest.
2. A growth of short, fine hairs underlying the longer and thicker outer hairs of an animal's coat; underfur or underwool.
3. The condition of being less than fully grown.

Low-growing plants, shrubs, and saplings in a forest or woodland. Also called underbrush.

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The noun has one meaning:

Meaning #1: the brush (small trees and bushes and ferns etc.) growing beneath taller trees in a wood or forest
  Synonyms: underbrush, underwood

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Dansk (Danish)
n. - underskov

Nederlands (Dutch)
kreupelhout, onvolgroeidheid

Français (French)
n. - sous-bois

Deutsch (German)
n. - Unterholz

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - χαμόκλαδα, θάμνοι

Italiano (Italian)
sottobosco

Português (Portuguese)
n. - vegetação rasteira (f), moita (f)

Русский (Russian)
подлесок, подшерсток

Español (Spanish)
n. - maleza, monte bajo, sotobosque

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - undervegetation, småvuxenhet

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
下层丛林, 发育不全, 在大树下的矮树

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 下層叢林, 發育不全, 在大樹下的矮樹

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 덤불, 잔털

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 下生え, 発育不全

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) ما يغطي سطح الارض في الادغال, غطاء حي نام تحت الاشجار‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮שיחים, סבך‬

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