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overstory

[ oh-ver-stawr-ee, -stohr-ee ]

noun

, plural o·ver·sto·ries.
  1. the uppermost layer of foliage in a forest, forming the canopy.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of overstory1

1480–90, for an earlier sense; 1955–60 for current sense; over- + story 2
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Example Sentences

Powers’s previous novel, The Overstory, won a Pulitzer Prize, and now Bewilderment has been longlisted for the National Book Award and shortlisted for the Booker Prize.

On many parts of tribal land, most of the trees in the overstory survived.

Comparisons to The Overstory are inevitable, both because that book was enormously successful and influential, and because it was also a call to action for the health of our planet.

Richard Powers’ 2018 novel The Overstory, which won that year’s Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, followed decades of the MacArthur Fellow’s work investigating the intersections of culture, the environment, science and technology.

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The dominant and codominant plants in the overstory (trees or shrubs) were noted at each station.

One shows associations of dominant overstory and understory plants.

Artemisia tridentata and Artemisia nova form the overstory in unit F and part of G.

The trapping areas in the first three mentioned had heavy growths of grass and an overstory of shrubs.

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