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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 [ˈθɪkɪt]
n
(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Botany) a dense growth of small trees, shrubs, and similar plants
[Old English thiccet; see thick]

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.) a bamboo thicket
Translations
thicket [ˈθɪkɪt] Nmatorral m

thicket [ˈθɪkɪt] nfourré m

thicket
nDickicht nt

thicket [ˈθɪkɪt] nboscaglia
thicket [ˈθɪkɪt] nboscaglia

thicket
n thicket [ˈθikit]
a group of trees or bushes growing closely together He hid in a thicket. bos أجَمَه، دَغْل، حَرَجَه صَغيرَه гъсталак houština krat das Dickicht σύδεντρο, συστάδα matorral tihnik بیشه tiheikkö fourré סְבָך झाडी़ guštara, gustiš sűrű (bozót) semak belukar kjarr, þykkni boschetto 茂み 덤불 tankumynas biezoknis belukar struikgewas kratt gąszcz moita tufiş заросли húština goščava šiprag busksnår, buskage หมู่ไม้หรือพุ่มไม้ที่ขึ้นหนาแน่น fundalık 灌木叢 гущавина; хаща گنجان جھاڑياں bụi 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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