It is this kind of underwood which is called mâquis.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mateo Falcone] Reference

Madame Arnoux, Rosanette, and Frederick Moreau, the Orleanist carnival, and the "underwood" of Fontainebleau.    From Wordnik.com.  [Madame Bovary A Tale of Provincial Life] Reference

The underwood, moreover, is less ragged and troublesome.    From Wordnik.com.  [Travels through the South of France and the Interior of Provinces of Provence and Languedoc in the Years 1807 and 1808] Reference

"Qui vive?" shouted a voice from the underwood near them.    From Wordnik.com.  [The King's Warrant A Story of Old and New France] Reference

There she lost sight of him -- the underwood was too thick.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

'"We're like rabbits in the underwood," the youngster went on.    From Wordnik.com.  [Odd] Reference

Fitz Hugh answered frantically, plunging on through the underwood.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Brigade Commander] Reference

It was not our fault that they chose to grow nothing but underwood.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 343, May 1844] Reference

After some trouble in passing the dense copse of underwood, I entered.    From Wordnik.com.  [Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver] Reference

Unexpectedly, the underwood behind the speakers was brushed aside and.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Daughters of Danaus] Reference

Valence, a rising ground, fringed with scattered oak underwood, affords.    From Wordnik.com.  [Itinerary of Provence and the Rhone Made During the Year 1819] Reference

Holm-wood was a little island covered with underwood, rushes, and wild flowers.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Comical Creatures from Wurtemberg Second Edition] Reference

We left our carriage, and walked up a hill covered with underwood, opposite the fall.    From Wordnik.com.  [Brittany & Its Byways] Reference

At the instant, crashing through the underwood, came Ewell, outriding staff and escort.    From Wordnik.com.  [Destruction and Reconstruction: Personal Experiences of the Late War] Reference

But in vain; nothing appeared all around but thick underwood and hillocks of white sand.    From Wordnik.com.  [Woman on the American Frontier] Reference

The ascent was very difficult, for they had quite to force their way through the underwood.    From Wordnik.com.  [Isabel Leicester A Romance by Maude Alma] Reference

Farther than this the ships could not go, because of the thick growth of trees and underwood.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Book of Discovery The History of the World's Exploration, From the Earliest Times to the Finding of the South Pole] Reference

He found them posted in a plain, partially covered with pine trees, dwarf oaks, and underwood.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. From George III. to Victoria] Reference

See their tossing antlers and glancing sides, as they pass to and fro among the green underwood.    From Wordnik.com.  [Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, July, 1851] Reference

He thought, a moment later, he saw the shadow of a man pass rapidly among the underwood behind them.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

With a thud of hoofs and a rustling of parting foliage the cavalryman disappeared amid the underwood.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Brigade Commander] Reference

In these forests there is no underwood, so that a horseman may gallop through them without impediment.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Account of Timbuctoo and Housa Territories in the Interior of Africa] Reference

Behind the house was high ground, once thickly wooded, and still partially covered with trees and underwood.    From Wordnik.com.  [True to his Colours The Life that Wears Best] Reference

I made a sign to Asa, and we all looked and saw there was something creeping and moving through the underwood.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 54, No. 334, August 1843] Reference

The entrance to Trömsdal was a rough, wild tract of low ground, clothed with coarse wild grasses and dwarf underwood.    From Wordnik.com.  [Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, July, 1851] Reference

The Dee, a rapid stream, winds through the green valley in a thousand fantastic bendings, overhung with thick underwood.    From Wordnik.com.  [The "Ladies of Llangollen" as Sketched by Many Hands; with Notices of Other Objects of Interest in "That Sweetest of Vales"] Reference

A very different process takes place in the manufacture of sticks from small underwood, in which there is no sawing required.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American, Volume XXIV., No. 12, March 18, 1871 A Weekly Journal of Practical Information, Art, Science, Mechanics, Chemistry, and Manufactures.] Reference

Our road lay through one of those enchanting landscapes, composed of small prairies, intersected by strips of oak and underwood.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 363, January, 1846] Reference

A few moments after, as we slowly crossed the stream, I noticed several women crouched in the underwood, having fled from the bath.    From Wordnik.com.  [Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver] Reference

This sort of underwood prevails also, I understand, in Elba, and, more or less, in the other islands of the central Mediterranean basin.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rambles in the Islands of Corsica and Sardinia with Notices of their History, Antiquities, and Present Condition.] Reference

They soon left the high road; and for several days held on downwards, hewing their path slowly and painfully through the thick underwood.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 8] Reference

He yelled again as he reached the lodge-gates, but the only response was the barking and howling of the dogs in the thick underwood beyond.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Crimson Blind] Reference

Sticks are manufactured both from large timber of from two to six feet girth, and from small underwood of about the thickness of a man's thumb.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American, Volume XXIV., No. 12, March 18, 1871 A Weekly Journal of Practical Information, Art, Science, Mechanics, Chemistry, and Manufactures.] Reference

You see on the right side of the road a picturesque ridge of cliffs clothed with shaggy ilexes and underwood, overhanging at intervals the walls and buildings.    From Wordnik.com.  [Roman Mosaics Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood] Reference