Hello and welcome to the English Like and Native podcast.
My name is Anna and you're listening to Week 58, Day 4 of Your English 5-A-Day.
This is the series that gives you a healthy,
daily dose of English vocabulary so
that you can slowly but surely increase your confidence and start to feel like yourself when communicating in English.
So let's start today's episode with the noun undergrowth.
Undergrowth.
We spelled this U-N-D-E-R-G-R-O-W-T-H.
Undergrowth.
Undergrowth.
Undergrowth is a mass of bushes, small trees and plants,
especially that that grows under the trees, the tall trees in a forest.
So the undergrowth.
So if you are walking into an area that's quite wild,
that's been allowed to just be itself, hasn't been manicured or changed in any way by man,
then you're probably going to encounter undergrowth,
an area that's quite difficult to move through because there are so many bushes and plants as more trees all there,
dense and difficult to go through.
So a mass of bushes, trees and plants undergrowth.
Here's an example sentence.