underside

«underside» in Mova's school dictionary: the bottom side or surface of something, the part facing… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (the underside, undersides)

meaning for a pupil

The underside is the bottom side or surface of something, the part facing down. tree →

sense in the lessons

In science lessons pupils look at «the underside of a leaf» (where the stomata and often insects are), «the underside of a rock» (where minibeasts hide), or «the underside of a mushroom» (gills). In everyday life, the underside of a table, car or boat. Phrases: «on the underside», «the underside of».

examples

• Turn the leaf over to look at its underside. tree →
• Woodlice live on the underside of logs. tree →
• The underside of the mushroom has gills. tree →
• Ladybirds lay eggs on the underside of leaves. tree →
• The price was on the underside of the box. tree →
• The boat's underside was covered in barnacles. tree →
• A starfish's underside has tiny tube feet. tree →

note

Plural: undersides. One word. Opposite: top, upper side. Also: «underneath», «bottom». Gently put rocks back the way they were after looking underneath.

In the corpora

• Owl butterflies have large eye spots on the underside of their wings that may startle birds or draw their pecks away from the body.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «underside» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.