thicket

The definition of a thicket is a dense area of bushes and small trees.

(noun)

An area in the woods that is overgrown with bushes and trees is an example of a thicket.

See thicket in Webster's New World College Dictionary

noun

a thick growth of shrubs, underbrush, or small trees

Origin: ME < OE thiccet < thicce, thick

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See thicket in American Heritage Dictionary 4

noun

A dense growth of shrubs or underbrush; a copse.
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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Origin: Old English thiccet

Origin: , from thicce, thick; see thick

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