undergrowth

Shrubs, saplings, and herbaceous plants growing beneath trees in a forest.

The condition of being less than fully grown.

Short, fine under-hair on a skin.

Specifically, in forestry, the ground-cover, underbrush, and young trees below the large sapling stage.

That which grows under; especially, shrubs or small trees growing beneath or among large ones.

The state or condition of being undergrown.

That which grows under trees; specifically, shrubs or small trees growing among large trees.

The plants in a forest which only reach a relatively low height (such as shrubs and bushes).

the brush (small trees and bushes and ferns etc.) growing beneath taller trees in a wood or forest