understory

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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈʌndəstɔːɹi/
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• General-American: /ˈʌndɚˌstoɹi/
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• CMU ARPABET: AH1 N D ER0 S T AO2 R IY0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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PIE word *(H)n̥dhér From under- (prefix meaning ‘beneath, under’) + story (“a floor or level”).

34 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Finnish: alakerros — story of a building below the stories generally used for residence or work
• Macedonian: до́лен кат (dólen kat) — story of a building below the stories generally used for residence or work
• Polish: parter — story of a building below the stories generally used for residence or work
• Arabic: أشجار الطبقة السفلى — (layer of) plants that grow in the shade of the canopy of a forest above the forest floor — see also undergrowth
• Basque: oihanpe — (layer of) plants that grow in the shade of the canopy of a forest above the forest floor — see also undergrowth
• Belarusian: падлесак (padljesak) — (layer of) plants that grow in the shade of the canopy of a forest above the forest floor — see also undergrowth
• Bulgarian: подлес (podles) — (layer of) plants that grow in the shade of the canopy of a forest above the forest floor — see also undergrowth
• Catalan: sotabosc — (layer of) plants that grow in the shade of the canopy of a forest above the forest floor — see also undergrowth
• Chinese Mandarin: 下層植被 /下层植被 (xiàcéngzhíbèi) — (layer of) plants that grow in the shade of the canopy of a forest above the forest floor — see also undergrowth
• Esperanto: subarbaraĵo — (layer of) plants that grow in the shade of the canopy of a forest above the forest floor — see also undergrowth
• Estonian: alsumets — (layer of) plants that grow in the shade of the canopy of a forest above the forest floor — see also undergrowth
• Finnish: aluskasvillisuus — (layer of) plants that grow in the shade of the canopy of a forest above the forest floor — see also undergrowth
• French: sous-bois — (layer of) plants that grow in the shade of the canopy of a forest above the forest floor — see also undergrowth
• German: Unterholz — (layer of) plants that grow in the shade of the canopy of a forest above the forest floor — see also undergrowth
• Greek: υπόροφος (ypórofos) — (layer of) plants that grow in the shade of the canopy of a forest above the forest floor — see also undergrowth
• Hungarian: aljnövényzet — (layer of) plants that grow in the shade of the canopy of a forest above the forest floor — see also undergrowth
• Indonesian: tumbuhan bawah hutan — (layer of) plants that grow in the shade of the canopy of a forest above the forest floor — see also undergrowth
• Indonesian: tumbuhan dasar hutan — (layer of) plants that grow in the shade of the canopy of a forest above the forest floor — see also undergrowth
• Italian: sottobosco — (layer of) plants that grow in the shade of the canopy of a forest above the forest floor — see also undergrowth
• Korean: 하목층 (hamokcheung) — (layer of) plants that grow in the shade of the canopy of a forest above the forest floor — see also undergrowth
• Latvian: krūmu stāvs — (layer of) plants that grow in the shade of the canopy of a forest above the forest floor — see also undergrowth
• Latvian: pamežs — (layer of) plants that grow in the shade of the canopy of a forest above the forest floor — see also undergrowth
• Lithuanian: pomiškis — (layer of) plants that grow in the shade of the canopy of a forest above the forest floor — see also undergrowth
• Macedonian: гр́мушки (gŕmuški) — (layer of) plants that grow in the shade of the canopy of a forest above the forest floor — see also undergrowth
• Manx: straih veanagh — (layer of) plants that grow in the shade of the canopy of a forest above the forest floor — see also undergrowth
• Persian: زیراشکوب — (layer of) plants that grow in the shade of the canopy of a forest above the forest floor — see also undergrowth
• Polish: podszyt — (layer of) plants that grow in the shade of the canopy of a forest above the forest floor — see also undergrowth
• Polish: podszycie — (layer of) plants that grow in the shade of the canopy of a forest above the forest floor — see also undergrowth
• Portuguese: sub-bosque — (layer of) plants that grow in the shade of the canopy of a forest above the forest floor — see also undergrowth
• Romanian: subarboret — (layer of) plants that grow in the shade of the canopy of a forest above the forest floor — see also undergrowth
• Russian: подле́сок (podlésok) — (layer of) plants that grow in the shade of the canopy of a forest above the forest floor — see also undergrowth
• Spanish: sotobosque — (layer of) plants that grow in the shade of the canopy of a forest above the forest floor — see also undergrowth
• Turkish: orman altı — (layer of) plants that grow in the shade of the canopy of a forest above the forest floor — see also undergrowth
• Uzbek: chalabutalar — (layer of) plants that grow in the shade of the canopy of a forest above the forest floor — see also undergrowth