Underwood

Definition: Underwood

Underwood

Noun

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

Date "underwood" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1601. (references)

Domain	Definition
Biographical Satire	UNDERWOOD, Oscar, known as Underwood Bill. A gentleman from Alabama who walked in a presidential, but ran in a senatorial, race. He had something to do with the high cost of tariffing. Source: Who was Who: 5000BC - 1914.
Food & Agriculture	A)generally, (USA)trees(underwood)and(Commonwealth)woody species, growing under an overstorey; b)more specifically(Commonwealth)the coppice in coppice with standards. Source: European Union. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Underwood

Synonyms: underbrush (n), undergrowth (n). (additional references)

Synonyms by domain: undergrowth (food & agriculture), understorey, understory.

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Vegetable	Timber, forest; wood, woodlands; timberland; hurst, frith, holt, weald, park, chase, greenwood, brake, grove, copse, coppice, bocage, tope, clump of trees, thicket, spinet, spinney; underwood, brushwood; scrub; boscage, bosk, ceja, chaparal, motte.; arboretum .
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Underwood

English words defined with "underwood": Boscage ♦ Cercis canadenis ♦ redbud. (references)

Specialty definitions using "underwood": Benevolus ♦ UNDERWOOD. (references)

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	Aunt Ella, when Basil Underwood feels like a kipper, I'm sure he doesn't feel like an egg - even an aristocratic one. (It's Love I'm After; writing credit: Maurice Hanline; Casey Robinson)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
Books	Atop an Underwood (reference) Dope on a Rope - Oddments from the Mind of Kim Underwood (reference) Gentlemen Photographers: The Work of Loring Underwood and William Lyman Underwood (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	[Alice C. Evans] / P. Credit: National Library of Medicine; photo by Underwood & Underwood..		[Frederick A. Dale] / P. Credit: National Library of Medicine; photo by Underwood & Underwood..
	Fragment of the decorative woodwork from the ship's stern, recovered from Tripoli harbor and presented to the Naval Lyceum, Brooklyn, New York, on 10 February 1835 by Midshipman J.A. Underwood. The artifact was subsequently transferred to the U.S. Naval Academy Museum. Credit: NAVY.		Photographed in 1898. The original photograph was copyright 1898 by Strohmeyer & Wyman and published on a stereograph card by Underwood & Underwood. Credit: NAVY.
	"Wool Bill" ram leaping over "Presidential veto" banner, held by House Leader Oscar Wilder Underwood and Speaker James Beauchamp Clark dressed as clowns in "Democratic House of Representatives" arena] / Bart. Credit: Library of Congress.		Fifth Avenue looking north from 39th street to 59th street, New York City] / Underwood & Underwood, New York. Credit: Library of Congress.
	Calls off Austro-German customs pact / p. Credit: Library of Congress; photo by Underwood and Underwood..		Newark Housing Authority, Sussex St., Newark, New Jersey. Underwood St. Credit: Library of Congress.
	Louis Dembitz Brandeis, half-length portrait, facing slightly left, wearing judicial robe] / Underwood & Underwood. Credit: Library of Congress.		Left to right: Mrs. William N. Butler, wife of the Senator from Mass., Mrs. Frederick Gillett, wife of the Senator from Mass., and Mrs. Oscar Underwood, wife of the Senator from Alabama, at the weekly Senate Ladies Luncheon, Edgemoor. Credit: Library of Congress.
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

"Underwood" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 91.71% of the time. "Underwood" is used about 205 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (proper)	91.71%	188	22,417
Noun (singular)	8.29%	17	85,106
Total	100.00%	205	N/A

The following table summarizes the usage of "underwood" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.

Name	Usage/Gender	Usage per 100 million Persons	Rank in USA
Underwood	Last name	24,000	488
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

1. Underwood, IA (city, FIPS 79500)
Location: 41.38573 N, 95.67930 W
Population (1990): 515 (217 housing units)
Area: 0.9 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip Code(s): 51576
Country: USA

2. Underwood, IN
Zip Code(s): 47177
Country: USA

3. Underwood, MN (city, FIPS 66172)
Location: 46.28524 N, 95.87000 W
Population (1990): 284 (140 housing units)
Area: 0.9 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip Code(s): 56586
Country: USA

4. Underwood, ND (city, FIPS 80660)
Location: 47.45435 N, 101.14117 W
Population (1990): 976 (464 housing units)
Area: 2.3 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip Code(s): 58576
Country: USA

5. Underwood, WA
Zip Code(s): 98651
Country: USA

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Expressions: Underwood

Expression using "underwood": New Underwood. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "underwood": Underwood-Petersville.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Underwood

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day	Expression	Frequency per Day
underwood	97	rebecca underwood	7
blair underwood	52	underwood chevrolet	7
jacob underwood	48	james underwood	7
simpson underwood york	45	deviled ham underwood	6
hospital memorial underwood	44	underwood iowa	6
typewriter underwood	44	underwood high school	6
jay underwood	42	antique typewriter underwood	5
underwood mn	19	sarah underwood	5
sheryl underwood	19	uss underwood	5
hospital underwood	18	horse medicine underwood	5
sara underwood	16	jim underwood	5
underwood nd	15	underwood wa	5
becker underwood	14	new underwood sd	5
underwood watch winder	12	underwood in	5
band hollywood underwood	10	underwood weevil	5
scott underwood	10	anthony underwood	5
jill underwood	9	underwood ia	4
gary livingston underwood	9	jeweler underwood	4
underwood north dakota	7	jacob pic underwood	4
john underwood	7	samuel underwood	4
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Underwood

Language		Translations for "underwood"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Arabic		‏الشجيرات النامية تحت الشجر الكبير. (various references)

Bulgarian		Шубрак (Bush). (various references)

Farsi		گیاهی که درزیردرختی روءیده , زیربوته . (various references)

French		strate inférieure (undergrowth, understory), sous-bois (undergrowth), sous-étage (undergrowth, understory), Armature. (various references)

German		Unterholz (brake, brush, coppice, underbrushes, undergrowth, underwoods). (various references)

Greek		Θάμνοι όεταξύ �"έντρων. (various references)

Italian		sottobosco (underbrush, undergrowth). (various references)

Manx		myn-foiee, myncheyll (brushwood). (various references)

Pig Latin		erwoodunday

Portuguese		Vegetação Rasteira (underbrush, undergrowth). (various references)

Romanian		Tufãriş (thicket). (various references)

Russian		поросль (growth), подлесок (boscage, copse, spinney, underbrush, undergrowth). (various references)

Scottish		creathach (brushwood for fuel). (various references)

Spanish		sotobosque (scrub, shrub layer, shrub stratum, underbrush, undergrowth, understory). (various references)

Turkish		Ağaç Altında Büyüyen Çalılar. (various references)

Vietnamese		bụi cây thấp (underbrush). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: Underwood

Derivations
	Words beginning with "underwood": underwoods. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Underwood"

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "underwood" (pronounced u"nderwuh'd)
4	-er w uh' d	firewood, Leatherwood.
3	-w uh' d	Blackwood, boxwood, corkwood, Cottonwood, Dagwood, deadwood, devilwood, dogwood, driftwood, greasewood, Greenwood, hardwood, heartwood, ironwood, logwood, plywood, pulpwood, Redwood, rosewood, softwood, teakwood, wildwood, Wormwood.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Underwood

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "d-d-e-n-o-o-r-u-w"
	-1 letter: unwooded.
	-2 letters: drowned, redound, redwood, rewound, rounded, underdo, unwooed, wounded.
	-3 letters: downed, downer, droned, drownd, durned, enduro, nodder, odored, undoer, undrew, wonder, wooded, wooden, worded.
	-4 letters: donor, dowed, dower, drone, drown, dured, endow, nuder, odder, odeon, odour, owned, owner, redon, rewon, rodeo, rondo, rouen, round, rowed, rowen, udder, under, unwed, uredo, wooed, wooer, wound.
	Words containing the letters "d-d-e-n-o-o-r-u-w"
	+1 letter: underwoods.
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