thicket

[ thik-it ]
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noun
  1. a thick or dense growth of shrubs, bushes, or small trees; a thick coppice.

Origin of thicket

1
before 1000; Old English thiccet (not recorded in ME), equivalent to thiccethick + -et noun suffix

Other 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 Blanchan
  • After this bold thinning, instead of dense thickety bushes we have a few strong, well-branched rods to each stool.

    Wood and Garden | Gertrude Jekyll
  • Go 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. Chapman
  • In the autumn it is found in hedgerows, thickets and weedy grainfields, rarely however, straying far from some thickety cover.

British Dictionary definitions for thicket

thicket

/ (ˈθɪkɪt) /


noun
  1. a dense growth of small trees, shrubs, and similar plants

Origin of thicket

1
Old English thiccet; see thick

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