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understory
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From under- (prefix meaning ‘beneath, under’) + story (“a floor または level”).[1]
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understory (plural understories or (まれに) understorys) (chiefly 米国用法 spelling)
- (architecture, dated, also figuratively) A story of a building below the stories generally used for residence or work.
- 1760, quoting Richard Pococke, “Art. VI.—The Annals of Banff. Compiled by William Cramond, M.A., LL.D. Printed for the New Spalding Club. Aberdeen, 1893. [book review]”, in John Taylor Coleridge, editor, The Quarterly Review, volume 186, number 371, London: John Murray, […], published July 1897, →OCLC, page 155:
- 1785, James Boswell, quoting Samuel Johnson, “Thursday, 26th August [1773]”, in The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, with Samuel Johnson, LL.D. […], London: […] Henry Baldwin, for Charles Dilly, […], →OCLC, page 122:
- Elgin has vvhat in England are called piazzas, that run in many places on each ſide of the ſtreet. […] I approved much of ſuch ſtructures in a tovvn, on account of their conveniency in vvet vveather. Dr. Johnſon diſapproved of them, "becauſe (ſaid he) it makes the under ſtory of a houſe very dark, vvhich greatly over-balances the conveniency, vvhen it is conſidered hovv ſmall a part of the year it rains; […]"
- 1838, J[ames] A[ugustus] St. John, “Preliminary Discourse”, in Thomas More; Francis Bacon, Utopia: or, The Happy Republic. A Philosophical Romance, by Sir Thomas More. To which is Added, The New Atlantis, by Lord Bacon. […], London: Joseph Rickerby, […], →OCLC, page lii:
- Besides, to the vulgar it is more agreeable to behold difficulties overcome, than to examine laboriously all the complicated machinery by which the effect is produced. They lack the patience to learn in detail the name and office of each wheel, and pulley, and spring, hidden in the understorey of politics, by which the beautiful results they contemplate on the surface of society are originated, and pronounce insipid every attempt to introduce them to their knowledge.
- 1881, David Macrae, “The Lightning City”, in The Americans at Home: Pen-and-ink Sketches of American Men, Manners, and Institutions, revised edition, Glasgow: John S. Marr & Sons, →OCLC, page 346:
- The stone foundation is generally in the form of an under[-]story. Sometimes a dwelling-house is lifted, and shops put in below. I was told of a congregation in a city which, being in want of money, had their church lifted so as to allow of the insertion of shops beneath, got these let, and speedily relieved the church from its embarrassments.
- (ecology, also attributively) The (layer of) plants that grow in the shade of the canopy of a forest above the forest floor.
- Synonyms: underbrush, undergrowth
- Antonyms: overstorey, overstory
- 1971, Kenneth B[railey] Cumberland, “Climatic Change or Cultural Interference? New Zealand in Moahunter Times”, in S. R. Eyre, editor, World Vegetation Types (Geographical Readings), London: Palgrave Macmillan, , →ISBN, page 219:
- 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.
- 1994, Ian G. Read, “The Classification of Vegetation”, in The Bush: A Guide to the Vegetated Landscapes of Australia, Sydney, N.S.W.: University of New South Wales Press, →ISBN, part 2 (The Structural Formations of Australia’s Vegetation), page 28, column 1:
- 1997, Michael G. Shelton; Paul A. Murphy, “Methods”, in Understory Vegetation 3 Years after Implementing Uneven-aged Silviculture in a Shortleaf Pine-oak Stand (Research Paper; SO-296), Asheville, N.C.: Southern Research Station, Forest Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, →OCLC, pages 1–2:
- 1999, Ernest Small; Paul M. Catling, “Oplopanax horridus (J. E. Smith) Miq. Devil’s Club”, in P. B. Cavers, editor, Canadian Medicinal Crops, Ottawa: NRC Research Press, published 2007, →ISBN, page 103, column 2:
- This species is found in both maritime and continental climates. It is a dominant component of understorys of various Pacific northwest and western boreal forests, often forming dense, nearly impenetrable pure thickets, but also occurring in some understorys with other shrubs and (or) herbaceous plants.
- 2003, Howard S. Neufeld; Donald R. Young, “Ecophysiology of the Herbaceous Layer in Temperate Deciduous Forests”, in Frank S. Gilliam and Mark R. Roberts, editors, The Herbaceous Layer in Forests of Eastern North America, Oxford, Oxfordshire; New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 38:
- Light availability is the primary limiting resource for understory plants of eastern deciduous forests, and their long-term persistence in these habitats depends on adaptations that enable photosynthesis sufficient to maintain a positive annual carbon balance […]. However, in addition to low light, understory plants may also be limited by water stress […].
- 2011, David B. Lindenmayer, “What Makes a Good Remnant?”, in What Makes a Good Farm for Wildlife?, Collingwood, Vic.: CSIRO Publishing, →ISBN, page 24:
- An understorey is typically defined as the vegetation layer between the ground layer (up to approximately one metre) and the overstorey. Some woodland vegetation types support only a sparse understorey.
- 2012, Mark S. Ashton, Mary L. Tyrrell, Deborah Spalding, and Bradford Gentry, editors, Managing Forest Carbon in a Changing Climate, Dordrecht, South Holland; Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg: Springer, , →ISBN, page 94, column 1:
- In the absence of fire, oaks do not establish well in either shaded understorys or sunlit openings, because they are neither shade tolerant nor fast growing […].
- 2020, Lorinda A. Hart, “Red-billed Leiothrix (Leiothrix lutea Scopoli, 1786)”, in Colleen T. Downs and Lorinda A. Hart, editors, Invasive Birds: Global Trends and Impacts, Wallingford, Oxfordshire; Boston, Mass.: CABI, →ISBN, page 66, column 1:
- In Hawaii, Red-billed Leiothrix were 92% more abundant in discontinuous forest that had dense understoreys with abundantly fruiting bushes as opposed to continuous forest with bare understoreys […].
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参照
- ^ “understorey, n.”, in OED Online , Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, December 2022; “understorey, n.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
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