undergreen

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noun

Greenery that is underneath.

“J. Russell Tayler, The Madness of Sir Tristram Yet we, that listened in the sighing wood, / With soiled gowns crouching in the undergreen, / Were not quite sure, until he said "Isoude!"”

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Meanings

nounundergreen (uncountable)
  1. poeticuncountableGreenery that is underneath.

    J. Russell Tayler, The Madness of Sir Tristram Yet we, that listened in the sighing wood, / With soiled gowns crouching in the undergreen, / Were not quite sure, until he said "Isoude!"

    1 more example

    and in the cottonwoods not yet turned, the green and the undergreen whirl at the length of our petioles

    2009, Kenneth Irby, Kyle Waugh, Cyrus Console, The Intent On: Collected Poems, 1962-2006, page 540

Origin

under- + green

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Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “undergreen,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/undergreen.

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