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underˈgrown, ppl. a.
[under-1 4 a, 10 a.]
1. Imperfectly grown or developed.
c1386Chaucer Prol. 156 She hadde a fair forheed. It was almoost a spanne brood I trowe, For hardily she was nat vndergrowe.
†2. Showing signs of puberty. Obs.
1601Holland Pliny I. 345 As well men as women-kind,..when they are come to fourteene yeares of age, and be under⁓growne. 1609― Amm. Marcell. xxvi. iii. 287 He had put forth a sonne of his, scarce undergrowne, unto a Sorcerer.
3. Furnished with an undergrowth.
1895Westm. Gaz. 14 Aug. 3/1 A thicket of thorn trees, undergrown with long dried-up grass. |