understory
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5.1
- noun
- /ˈʌndərˌstɔri/
- Specialized
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bajo dosel
- In the rainforest, the understory is filled with smaller trees and dense bush that provide habitat for many animals.
- forest understory
- understory vegetation
- understory shrubs
And because they're an understory plant, they like to be in really well draining fertile soil.
- And because they're an understory plant, they like to be in really well draining fertile soil.
- Giving it full sun is great, but the big but to that is that they are actually what you kind of consider an understory plant.
Examples
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New redwood seedlings, understory ferns and brush, and even a few rare species have reappeared.
Academic text (1994) -
My project was looking at understory plants and how the community and the carbon storage and fluxes in those plants has changed over time.
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Do canopy conditions determine understory species' replacement?
Academic text (2018) -
No other animal, however, depends upon leaves in the shady forest understory to the extent that the okapi does.
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Under reduced light conditions, fire-adapted species performed poorly in the understory and increasingly gave way to shade-tolerant species.
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Here, almost all of the trees are conifers, and the understory of flowering plants is not as varied and dense.
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So kind of a nice understory is great and that's going to give you a great place for mushrooms to colonize.
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And because they're an understory plant, they like to be in really well draining fertile soil.
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Finally, we analyzed whether understory communities differ according to the degree of dieback (Q4).
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The cacao tree grows naturally in the shaded, humid understory of lowland tropical forest, reaching heights of some twenty feet.
Academic text (2003)
Synonyms
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8.0
Low bushes and small trees that grow under taller trees in a forest
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5.6
Small plants, bushes, and young trees that grow under tall trees in a forest
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3.9
Low plants and bushes that grow under tall trees in a forest
How High
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Understory comes from the parts under- meaning 'below' and story meaning a 'floor' or 'level' like in a building, so you can picture the forest as a house with layers. That's why understory means the layer of plants and small trees that grows beneath the main canopy.