Thicket

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A dense growth of shrubs or underbrush; a copse.
  • n. 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).
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A dense, but generally small, growth of shrubs, bushes or small trees; a copse.
  • n. 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.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A wood or a collection of trees, shrubs, etc., closely set.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. Specifically, in forestry, a stand of saplings.
  • n. A number of shrubs, bushes, or trees set and growing close together; a thick coppice, grove, or the like.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a dense growth of bushes
  • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    botany    flora    vegetation   
    Hyponym
    undergrowth    underbrush    underwood    spinney    canebrake    brake   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    brush    underbrush    thickset    beck    boscage    covert    brake    chaparral    fern shaw    canebrake   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Pickett    cricket    picket    ticket    trickett   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    clump    grove    bush    undergrowth    hedge    bough    jungle    shrub    forest    copse