thicket

Converse of object

• form: It spreads rapidly by sucker ing, to form dense thickets beneath woodland trees or out in the open.

Adjective modifier

• impenetrable: Prior to this it had been an impenetrable thicket with no views of the River Cherwell or the cricket pitch beyond.
• tangled: In the dim light he forced his horse through a tangled thicket overhanging a steep and rocky declivity.
• dense: On the southern bank of the Brook, there is a fairly dense thicket, through which a pronounced ditch runs to the stream.
• thorny: Member likened the job to which I have just been appointed to a " thorny thicket " .
• small: They tethered their horses by a small thicket along the river bank.
• hazel: Hazel thickets on the lower slopes give way to mixed woodland of ash, birch, hawthorn and rowan.

Modifies a noun

• stage: Dense cover or thicket stage plantation requires the use of trained tracker dogs.

Noun used with modifier

• savanna: Turdoides plebejus - Brown Babbler Comoé NP: 1 caught in savanna thicket near Hyperolius Pond ( May 12 ) 237.
• blackthorn: Blackthorn thickets provide a home for five colonies of black hairstreak butterflies, one of the UKâs rarest butterflies.
• bramble: Found in a wide variety of habitats, including gardens, particularly in bramble thickets.
• bamboo: Lush greenery and bamboo thickets are typical farming village scenes in Taiwan.
• rhododendron: Small numbers seen and heard in the rhododendron thickets all year.
• hawthorn: The walking was easy, as the Elham Valley Way followed the Nailbourne through farmland and hawthorn thicket to the next village.

Possessives

• edge: He laid the sleeping squirrel on the bench, listened, then instinctively stood up and walked to the thicket's edge.

Preposition: of

• tree: Suddenly, we received well aimed fire from a thicket of trees.
• bramble: Above-left we see the aforementioned gates and the thicket of brambles now serving to further protect the entrance to the bridge.
• thorn: He lay fast asleep in the shelter of a tumbledown building buried beneath a massive and almost impenetrable thicket of thorns.
• scrub: The area was characterized by thickets of scrub and brambles, interspersed with open glades.
• forest: The dwarves fought under the Sun and the Moon, in thickets of the magical forest and in tight corridors of the mines.