英语词汇“thicket”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

　

单词	thicket
释义	Trends of thicket View usage for: thicket (θɪkɪt) Word forms: plural thickets 1. countable noun A thicket is a small group of trees or bushes which are growing closely together. ...a bamboo thicket. Synonyms: wood, grove, woodland, brake More Synonyms of thicket 2. countable noun [with supplement, usually NOUN of noun] If you refer to a thicket of ideas or events, you mean that there a lot of them together, and often that they are confusing or difficult to identify. The novel is a thicket of literary references. To try to open a foreign-owned business is to enter a thicket of regulations. thicket in British English (ˈθɪkɪt) noun a dense growth of small trees, shrubs, and similar plants Word origin Old English thiccet; see thick thicket in American English (ˈθɪkɪt) noun a thick growth of shrubs, underbrush, or small trees Derived forms thicketed (ˈthicketed) adjective Word origin ME < OE thiccet < thicce, thick Examples of 'thicket' in a sentence thicket The surveyor looked in the dense thicket of rhododendron that screened the garden from the road. Times, Sunday Times (2010) Her ideals are hedged in a dense thicket of ego. Times, Sunday Times (2009) But her book leads into a tangled theological thicket, without suggesting a workable path forward. Christianity Today (2000) Edward entered the thicket cautiously. Frederick Marryat The Children of the New Forest (1847) With a sigh Aislinn turned and slowly entered the thicket herself, knowing he must settle the problem himself within his own mind. Kathleen E. Woodiwiss THE WOLF AND THE DOVE In other languages thicket British English: thicket NOUN A thicket is a small group of trees or bushes which are growing closely together. ...a bamboo thicket. American English: thicket Brazilian Portuguese: matagal Chinese: 灌木林 European Spanish: espesura French: fourré German: Dickicht Italian: boscaglia Japanese: やぶ Korean: 덤불 European Portuguese: matagal Latin American Spanish: espesura (noun) in the sense of wood Definition a dense growth of small trees or shrubs a bamboo thicket Synonyms wood grove open fields and groves of trees woodland the strip of woodland which bordered the stream brake clump covert hurst (archaic) copse coppice spinney (British) A spinney of thorn hung on the craggy edge of the hill. Additional synonyms in the sense of covert Definition a thicket or woodland providing shelter for game Synonyms thicket, bushes, brush (archaic), underwood, undergrowth, shrubbery, coppice in the sense of grove Definition a small wood or group of trees open fields and groves of trees Synonyms wood, woodland, plantation, covert, hurst (archaic), thicket, copse, brake, coppice, spinney in the sense of spinney Definition a small wood A spinney of thorn hung on the craggy edge of the hill. Synonyms copse, thicket, coppice, holt Nearby words of thicket thick thick-skinned thicken thicket thickhead thickheaded thickness Synonyms of 'thicket' thicket Explore 'thicket' in the dictionary Additional synonyms in the sense of woodland Definition land that is mostly covered with woods or trees the strip of woodland which bordered the stream Synonyms forest, trees, woods, wood, bushland
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