See understory in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"ref": "1793 November 19, John Hill Blanchard (recorder), quoting William Middleton (witness), Trial of Robert Watt, for High Treason, before the Court, under the Special Commission of Oyer and Terminer, Held at Edinburgh. […], Edinburgh: […] William Brown, […], published 1795, →OCLC, page 131:",
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"ref": "1828, Reginald Heber, “Buxar to Benares”, in Narrative of a Journey through the Upper Provinces of India, from Calcutta to Bombay, 1824–1825, […], volume I, London: John Murray, […], →OCLC, page 265:",
"text": "The banqueting-house is a very striking and beautiful building in the form of a cross, open every way, and supported by a multitude of pillars and arches, erected on an under-story of an octagonal form.",
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"ref": "1838, J[ames] A[ugustus] St. John, “Preliminary Discourse”, in Thomas More, Francis Bacon, Utopia: or, The Happy Republic. A Philosophical Romance, by Sir Thomas More. To which is Added, The New Atlantis, by Lord Bacon. […], London: Joseph Rickerby, […], →OCLC, page lii:",
"text": "Besides, to the vulgar it is more agreeable to behold difficulties overcome, than to examine laboriously all the complicated machinery by which the effect is produced. They lack the patience to learn in detail the name and office of each wheel, and pulley, and spring, hidden in the understorey of politics, by which the beautiful results they contemplate on the surface of society are originated, and pronounce insipid every attempt to introduce them to their knowledge.",
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"ref": "1881, David Macrae, “The Lightning City”, in The Americans at Home: Pen-and-ink Sketches of American Men, Manners, and Institutions, revised edition, Glasgow: John S. Marr & Sons, →OCLC, page 346:",
"text": "The stone foundation is generally in the form of an under[-]story. Sometimes a dwelling-house is lifted, and shops put in below. I was told of a congregation in a city which, being in want of money, had their church lifted so as to allow of the insertion of shops beneath, got these let, and speedily relieved the church from its embarrassments.",
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"ref": "2011, David B. Lindenmayer, “What Makes a Good Remnant?”, in What Makes a Good Farm for Wildlife?, Collingwood, Vic.: CSIRO Publishing, →ISBN, page 24:",
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"ref": "2012, Mark S. Ashton, Mary L. Tyrrell, Deborah Spalding, Bradford Gentry, editors, Managing Forest Carbon in a Changing Climate, Dordrecht, South Holland, Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg: Springer, →DOI, →ISBN, page 94, column 1:",
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"ref": "2020, Lorinda A. Hart, “Red-billed Leiothrix (Leiothrix lutea Scopoli, 1786)”, in Colleen T. Downs, Lorinda A. Hart, editors, Invasive Birds: Global Trends and Impacts, Wallingford, Oxfordshire, Boston, Mass.: CABI, →ISBN, page 66, column 1:",
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{
"code": "uz",
"lang": "Uzbek",
"sense": "(layer of) plants that grow in the shade of the canopy of a forest above the forest floor — see also undergrowth",
"word": "chalabutalar"
}
],
"word": "understory"
}
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