thicket
/ˈθɪkɪt
/noun
A dense group of bushes or trees: a horned owl perfectly camouflaged in a dense thicket...
- They rode down a dirt path in the forest amid the thickets of bushes and trees.
- The birds love the dense thickets and scrub and clumps of bushes like blackthorn that grow in the older sites of the park.
- Barely 20 feet below us was a dense thicket of bushes, and there the car lay on its side, undamaged.
Synonyms
copse, coppice, dense growth, grove, brake, covert, tangle, clump;
wood;
British spinney
archaic hurst
Origin
Old English thiccet (see thick, -et1).