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/oh"veuhr stawr'ee, -stohr'ee/, n., pl. overstories.the uppermost layer of foliage in a forest, forming the canopy.[1480-90, for an earlier sense; 1955-60 for current sense; OVER- + STORY2]
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Universalium. 2010.
overstory
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