understory 的定义
- the shrubs and plants growing beneath the main canopy of a forest.
understory 近义词
等同于 underbrush
等同于 undergrowth
更多understory例句
- They decided to excavate the understory of the conflict—to figure out what it was really about–which required asking different questions and truly listening.
- “There’s no understory vegetation left, let alone any leaf litter suspended in it, so that species is really hanging in the balance,” says Marsh.
- Trees were small in this part of the woods, with a well developed understory thicket of coralberry and sumac.
- An almost continuous canopy of foliage has developed, shading the understory and thinning it by killing shrubs and saplings.
- Purshia tridentata (bitterbrush) is the understory codominant.
- Vegetation was pinyon-juniper woodland with an understory of mixed shrubs.
- A relatively pure understory of Poa fendleriana (muttongrass), is typical of such woodland on the middle parts of the mesas.