thicket
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++LDOCE 5++thick·et /ˈθɪkɪt/ noun [countable] DNa group of bushes and small trees 灌木丛；矮树林 SYN copse► see thesaurus at forest
Examples from the Corpus
thicket• He was working in a thicket of briar, elder and dead wood from a fallen tree.• Heavy-eyed, Mungo had fallen asleep and into a thicket of dreams.• As I drew close they both bolted, crashing loudly through the alder thicket.• Hissing shells searched the dark thickets through, and shrapnel swept the road along which we moved.• Even after they have dropped, they are valuable, lying in a blood-red pool under the dense thicket of branches.• Malcolm Forbes spent a couple of decades in the thickets of New Jersey politics and nearly became governor in the 1950s.• The thicket quivered, then moved.Origin thicket Old English thiccet, from thicce; → THICK1thick·et nounChineseSyllable
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thicket
thick‧et /ˈθɪkət, ˈθɪkɪt/
noun [countable]a group of bushes and small trees
SYN copse
▪ forest a very large area of land with a lot of trees growing closely together: In 1500, most of the country was forest. | the Black Forest in Germany
▪woods (also wood British English) an area of land covered with a lot of trees, that is smaller than a forest: Behind the house were the woods that we used to play in. | Follow the path through a small wood.
▪woodland an area of land that is covered with trees – used especially for describing the type of land in an area: The site covers 74 acres of beautiful ancient woodland.
▪rainforest a thick forest with tall trees, in tropical parts of the world that have a lot of rain: Tropical rainforests are home to over half of the planet’s plant and animal species. | the Indonesian rainforest
▪jungle an area of tropical forest where trees and large plants grow very closely together: the jungles of Borneo | The palace was hidden for centuries in Guatemala’s dense jungle.
▪grove a small group of trees, or an area of land planted with a particular type of fruit tree: The temple was built in the centre of a small grove of trees. | the olive groves of southern Spain
▪copse /kɒps $ kɑːps/ a small area of trees or bushes growing closely together: At the top of the field was a copse full of rabbits.
▪plantation a large area of trees planted for their wood, fruit etc: a rubber plantation
▪thicket /ˈθɪkət, ˈθɪkɪt/ a small group of bushes, plants, or small trees growing closely together: Tall bamboo thickets fringed the narrow river.
thick‧et /ˈθɪkət, ˈθɪkɪt/
noun [countable]a group of bushes and small trees SYN copse
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