thicket

thick·et

T0163600 (thĭk′ĭt)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).

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

thicket

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

thick•et

(ˈθɪk ɪt)

n. a dense growth of shrubs, bushes, or small trees. [before 1000; Old English thiccet (not recorded in Middle English) =thicce thick + -et n. suffix]

Thicket

 a clump of trees, 1440; a collection of tangled underbrush.

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

thicket - a dense growth of bushes brush, coppice, copse, brushwoodbotany, 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 plantcanebrake - a dense growth of cane (especially giant cane)spinney - a copse that shelters gameunderbrush, 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

灌木丛

thicket

(ˈθikit) noun a group of trees or bushes growing closely together. He hid in a thicket. 灌木叢 灌木丛