thicket
a thick or dense growth of shrubs, bushes, or small trees; a thick coppice.
Origin of thicket
1Other words from thicket
- thick·et·ed, thick·et·y, adjective
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How to use thicket in a sentence
Taking up a residence in the tangled shrubbery or thickety undergrowth, it immediately begins to scold like a crotchety old wren.
Bird Neighbors | Neltje BlanchanAfter this bold thinning, instead of dense thickety bushes we have a few strong, well-branched rods to each stool.
Wood and Garden | Gertrude JekyllGo yourself to the brush-grown, thickety wood borders and clearings he loves and let him be his own interpreter.
What Bird is That? | Frank M. ChapmanIn the autumn it is found in hedgerows, thickets and weedy grainfields, rarely however, straying far from some thickety cover.
British Dictionary definitions for thicket
/ (ˈθɪkɪt) /
a dense growth of small trees, shrubs, and similar plants
Origin of thicket
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