ppl. a. [UNDER-1 4 a, 10 a.]
1. Imperfectly grown or developed.
c. 1386. Chaucer, 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.
1601. Holland, Pliny, I. 345. As well men as women-kind, when they are come to fourteene yeares of age, and be undergrowne. Ibid. (1609), Amm. Marcell., XXVI. iii. 287. He had put forth a sonne of his, scarce undergrowne, unto a Sorcerer.
3. Furnished with an undergrowth.
1895. Westm. Gaz., 14 Aug., 3/1. A thicket of thorn trees, undergrown with long dried-up grass.
