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Understory

//ˈʌndəstɔːɹi// noun

Noun

1
A story of a building below the stories generally used for residence or work. US, also, dated, figuratively
"On the Vnder Story, tovvards the Garden, Let it be turned to a Grotta, or Place of Shade, or Eſtiuation."
2
The (layer of) plants that grow in the shade of the canopy of a forest above the forest floor. US, also, attributive
"Throughout the pre-European tussock grassland, and more especially in gullies, on terrace edges and wherever the surface configuration of the plains was broken, woody plants occurred, including occasionally surviving residues of podocarp forest understoreys."

PIE word *(H)n̥dʰér From under- (prefix meaning ‘beneath, under’) + story (“a floor or level”).

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