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thicket::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | brush, brushwood, coppice, copse |
| Type of | botany, flora, vegetation |
| Has types | underwood, spinney, underbrush, undergrowth, brake, canebrake |
Examples of thicket
thicket
The ceiling is a dense thicket of triangles hanging like inverted Tiffany lamps.
From the courier-journal.com
Insert the thermometer at the thicket part of the thicken without touching bone.
From the inrich.com
Atop a Flint Hills ridge, Hank turned on scent and charged into a small thicket.
From the kansas.com
The country's thicket of excitable cable-news networks reports on nothing else.
From the economist.com
A thicket of universities and hospitals sustains biotechnology and health care.
From the economist.com
If you go to the most white trash, thicket of woods, then yes you will find that.
From the economist.com
My guess is Jerry would say it repeatedly while foraging in a gooseberry thicket.
From the sacbee.com
Patent law is a thicket of traps that have made patent lawyers extremely wealthy.
From the guardian.co.uk
He is a very recognisable figure, tall and fat with a Victorian thicket of beard.
From the guardian.co.uk
- Brush: a dense growth of bushes
- A thicket is a very dense stand of trees or tall shrubs, often dominated by only one or a few species, to the exclusion of all others. They may be formed by species that shed large amounts of highly viable seeds that are able to germinate in the shelter of the maternal plants. ...
- The Thicket is a settlement located north of Bay Roberts, Newfoundland and Labrador. The population was 61 in 1951; 65 in 1956.
- A dense, but generally small, growth of shrubs, bushes or small trees; a copse; The collection of many small linked files created when a document is saved in HTML format by some word processors and web site creation software
- An area filled with close-growing plants, including shrubs, small trees, vines, grasses, ferns and/or others. A thicket is usually difficult to walk through, and provides great shelter for birds and other animals.
- Areas with dense plant growth
