underwood

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A typewriter made by the Underwood Typewriter Company
A surname
underbrush, undergrowth
{n} low wood, bushes amongst timbertrees
an English and Scottish topographic surname for someone who lived near a wood
a habitational surname for someone who lived in several places with that name in England and Scotland
Small trees and bushes that grow among large trees; coppice; underbrush; formerly used in the plural
the brush (small trees and bushes and ferns etc ) growing beneath taller trees in a wood or forest
underwood

    Hyphenation

    un·der·wood

    Turkish pronunciation

    ʌndırwûd

    Pronunciation

    /ˈəndərˌwo͝od/ /ˈʌndɜrˌwʊd/

    Etymology

    [ '&n-d&r-"wud ] (noun.) 14th century. The surname is sometimes habitational, used by someone who lived in any of several places of the same name. Otherwise it is topographic, referring to someone who lived near a wood. In both cases the name is from England or Scotland, and from Middle English. The common noun comes from the name of the manufacturer, after John T. Underwood, one of its founders.
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