undergrowth

English Thesaurus

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

hypernym	:	brush, brushwood, coppice, copse, thicket,
definition	:	a dense growth of bushes (noun.group)

hyponym	:	ground cover, groundcover,
definition	:	small plants other than saplings growing on a forest floor (noun.plant)

member meronym	:	forest, wood, woods,
definition	:	the trees and other plants in a large densely wooded area (noun.group)