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thicket

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thick·et  (thkt)
n.
1. A dense growth of shrubs or underbrush; a copse.
2. Something suggestive of a dense growth of plants, as in impenetrability or thickness: "the thicket of unreality which stands between us and the facts of life" Daniel J. Boorstin.

[Old English thiccet, from thicce, thick; see thick.]

thicket
Noun
a dense growth of small trees or shrubs [Old English thiccet]

Thicket a clump of trees, 1440; a collection of tangled underbrush.
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.thicketthicket - a dense growth of bushes            
botany, flora, vegetation - all the plant life in a particular region or period; "Pleistocene vegetation"; "the flora of southern California"; "the botany of China"
brake - an area thickly overgrown usually with one kind of plant
canebrake - a dense growth of cane (especially giant cane)
spinney - a copse that shelters game
underbrush, undergrowth, underwood - the brush (small trees and bushes and ferns etc.) growing beneath taller trees in a wood or forest

thicket
noun wood, grove, woodland, brake, clump, covert, hurst (archaic) copse, coppice, spinney Brit.
Translations

thicket [ˈθɪkɪt] nespesura
thicket [ˈθɪkɪt] nfourré m, hallier m
thicket [ˈθɪkɪt] nDickicht nt
thicket [ˈθɪkɪt] nboscaglia

thicket
n thicket [ˈθikit]
a group of trees or bushes growing closely together He hid in a thicket.bosأجَمَه، دَغْل، حَرَجَه صَغيرَهгъсталакhouštinakratdas Dickichtσύδεντρο, συστάδαmatorraltihnikبیشهtiheikköfourréסְבָךझाडी़guštara, gustišsűrű (bozót)semak belukarkjarr, þykkniboschetto茂み덤불tankumynasbiezoknisbelukarstruikgewaskrattgąszczmoitatufişзарослиhúštinagoščavašipragbusksnår, buskageหมู่ไม้หรือพุ่มไม้ที่ขึ้นหนาแน่นfundalık灌木叢гущавина; хащаگنجان جھاڑياںbụi cây

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But there went a report through all the land of the beautiful sleeping Briar Rose (for so the king's daughter was called): so that, from time to time, several kings' sons came, and tried to break through the thicket into the palace.
cried Levin, and he ran with Laska into the thicket to look for the snipe.
Rouletabille answered me by pointing to the path which ran quite close to the thicket to the door of the pavilion.
 
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