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PRONUNCIATION OF UNDERSTORY

understory  [ˈʌndəˌstɔːrɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF UNDERSTORY

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verb
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pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Understory is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES UNDERSTORY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

understory

Understory

Understory in forestry and ecology refers to plant life growing beneath the forest canopy without penetrating it to any extent. Plants in the understory comprise an assortment of seedlings and saplings of canopy trees together with specialist understory shrubs and herbs. Young canopy trees often persist in the understory for decades as suppressed juveniles until an opening in the forest overstory permits their growth into the canopy. In contrast understory shrubs complete their life cycles in the shade of the forest canopy. Some smaller tree species, such as dogwood and holly, rarely grow tall and generally are understory trees. Forest understories receive less intense light than plants in the canopy and such light as does penetrate is impoverished in wavelengths of light that are most effective for photosynthesis. Understory plants therefore must be shade tolerant—they must be able to photosynthesize adequately using such light as does reach their leaves. They often are able to use wavelengths that canopy plants cannot.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH UNDERSTORY


blindstorey
ˈblaɪndˌstɔːrɪ
blindstory
ˈblaɪndˌstɔːrɪ
cacciatore
ˌkɑːtʃəˈtɔːrɪ
centaury
ˈsɛntɔːrɪ
clearstory
ˈklɪəˌstɔːrɪ
clerestory
ˈklɪəˌstɔːrɪ
glory
ˈɡlɔːrɪ
midstory
ˈmɪdˌstɔːrɪ
multistorey
ˌmʌltɪˈstɔːrɪ
overstory
ˌəʊvəˈstɔːrɪ
satori
səˈtɔːrɪ
single-storey
ˈsɪŋɡəlˌstɔːrɪ
six-storey
ˌsɪksˈstɔːrɪ
storey
ˈstɔːrɪ
story
ˈstɔːrɪ
sumotori
ˌsuːməʊˈtɔːrɪ
Tory
ˈtɔːrɪ
two-storey
ˈtuːˈstɔːrɪ
understorey
ˈʌndəˌstɔːrɪ
yakitori
ˌjækɪˈtɔːrɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE UNDERSTORY

understandably
understander
understanding
understandingly
understate
understated
understatedly
understatement
understeer
understock
understood
understorey
understrapper
understrapping
understrata
understratum
understrength
understudied
understudies
understudy

WORDS THAT END LIKE UNDERSTORY

alternative history
ancient history
back story
cover story
credit history
directory
ghost story
history
horror story
life story
love story
medical history
natural history
oral history
prehistory
service history
short story
sob story
social history
success story
the same old story

Synonyms and antonyms of understory in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «understory» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF UNDERSTORY

Find out the translation of understory to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of understory from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «understory» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

林下
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

sotobosque
570 millions of speakers

English

understory
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

understory
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

understory
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

подлеском
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

sub-bosque
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

understory
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

sous-étage
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Understory
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Unterwuchs
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

低木層
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

하층
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Understory
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

understory
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

படரும்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

मर्यादा
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

understory
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

sottobosco
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

understory
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

підліском
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

understory
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

υπόροφο
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

understory
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

story
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

story
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of understory

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «UNDERSTORY»

The term «understory» is regularly used and occupies the 92.400 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «UNDERSTORY» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «understory» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «understory» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about understory

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «UNDERSTORY»

Discover the use of understory in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to understory and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Understory
Story Easton's life of writing greeting cards by day and breaking into homes at night changes when she decides to find a box of magic in the Amazon rain forest for a grieving boy after overhearing his plea to his mother during storytime.
Elizabeth Leiknes, 2012
2
Understory
Winner of the Samuel French Morse Poetry Prize
Michelle Boisseau, 1996
3
Open Field, Understory: New and Selected Poems
This superb collection of new and older work shows James Seay's sure progress from the reflection of first influences to the strongly individual voice of his later pieces.
James L. Seay, 1997
4
Understory Vegetation Responses to Pinyon-juniper Tree ...
In the greenhouse experiment, chip applications at 1.25 cm and 2.5 cm depths increased emergence compared to the control, and the 5cm depths decreased emergence compared to the control.
Tracy L. Benson, 2006
5
Characterizing Fire Regimes from Understory Vegetation ...
In the montane zone of the northern Colorado Front Range, ponderosa pine-dominated forests have been shaped by three highly variable fire regimes: high-frequency, low-severity, moderate-frequency, moderate-severity, and low-frequency, high ...
Robin P. Keith, 2007
6
The Overstory Book: Cultivating Connections with Trees
The previous chapter introduced the concept of understory crops. This chapter addresses key planning issues for integrating understory crops with trees. Crops planted under forest, orchard, or other trees are called “understory crops.
‎2004
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An Evaluation of Understory Vegetation Dynamics, Ecosystem ...
Cover classes and associated ranges of % cover and midpoints used in assessing cover of understory species. ... Pearson correlations between ordination axes and understory species functional groups for the NMS ordination of understory ...
Craig A. Carr, 2007
8
Western dwarf mistletoe infects understory Jeffrey pine ...
Western dwarf mistletoe infects understory Jeffrey pine seedlings on Cleveland National Forest , California. Res. Note PSW-386. Berkeley. CA: Pacific Southwest Forest and Range Experiment Station. Forest Service, U.S. Department of ...
Robert F. Scharpf, Detlev Vogler, Pacific Southwest Forest and Range Experiment Station (Berkeley, Calif.), 1986
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Understory Plant Community Response to Nitrogen and Dolomite ...
of dominant non-fern understory herbs decreased dramatically, one of which was Maianthemum canadense. In addition, Rainey et al. (1999) documented large declines in biomass (90%) and density (80%) of understory herbs after seven ...
Laura A. Heath, 2007
10
Functional Plant Ecology, Second Edition
The latter possibility is developed here. Competitive exclusion requires that species compete and that the better competitor consistently wins. Consider competition among forest understory plants. There is an asymmetry between strata in tall ...
Francisco Pugnaire, Fernando Valladares, 2007

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «UNDERSTORY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term understory is used in the context of the following news items.
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Rare Harpy Eagle Chick Captured in New Photos
Harpy eagles nesting high above the understory of the Peruvian rainforest have been captured in a series of stunning new photos. One of the eagles is a mama ... «NBCNews.com, Jul 15»
2
Weather startup Understory helps City of Somerville plan for climate …
When a cold front moved into Somerville the middle of last week, the team at Understory sat by their computer screens, watching it engulf the city in real time. «BetaBoston, May 15»
3
A Boston startup is helping Somerville make sense of the weather
The city said it would use weather stations from Boston-based Understory for purposes that include planning snow clearing and analyzing climate change effects ... «Boston Business Journal, May 15»
4
Tree-clearing turns Chicago area's forest preserves into prairie …
"(Having) too many trees creates tons of shade, and prevents growth of the understory." In Lake County, about 4,000 trees, many mature and healthy, have been ... «Chicago Tribune, Apr 15»
5
Shade coffee is for the birds: But even in the Ethiopian home of …
Those forest understory specialists "are among the birds most threatened with extinction globally," Buechley says. "That they are much more frequent in forests ... «Phys.Org, Feb 15»
6
Want more wildlife in your woods? Burn them
Hunters who are wondering why their tracts just aren't producing as many deer and turkeys as they used to can probably look at their understory for the answer. «NOLA.com, Dec 14»
7
Grasshoppers signal slow recovery of post-agricultural woodlands …
Sweeping through the plants in the understory with a tool called — fittingly — a sweep net, Hahn collected grasshoppers and recorded the types and numbers of ... «University of Wisconsin-Madison, Nov 14»
8
Montreal from A to Z: U is for understory
Invasive alien species are wreaking havoc in the understory of Mount Royal's woods, making life difficult for the native wildflowers, shrubs and trees that have ... «Montreal Gazette, Jul 14»
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Tech and Biotech: gener8tor grads Abodo and Understory raise funds
Understory, formerly Subsidence, has developed a new system for collecting weather data that, CEO Alex Kubicek says, is more real-time and thorough than any ... «Wisconsin State Journal, May 14»
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Understory Raises $1.9M To Deploy Its Network Of Hyper-Local …
Boston-based startup Understory wants to change that, and a new seed round of $1.9 million led by True Ventures, and including RRE Ventures, Vegas Tech ... «TechCrunch, Apr 14»

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