undergreen

English

Etymology

under- +‎ green

Noun

undergreen (uncountable)

  1. (poetic) Greenery that is underneath.
    • J. Russell Tayler, The Madness of Sir Tristram
      Yet we, that listened in the sighing wood, / With soiled gowns crouching in the undergreen, / Were not quite sure, until he said "Isoude!"
    • 2009, Kenneth Irby, Kyle Waugh, Cyrus Console, The Intent On: Collected Poems, 1962-2006, page 540:
      and in the cottonwoods not yet turned, the green and the undergreen whirl at the length of our petioles
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