Chiefly Southwest a clump or grove of trees
Origin of bosque
Spanish from Provençal bosc from Frankish busk, forest: see bush
A bosque by a river.
The definition of bosque means a cluster or group of trees.
An example of a bosque is an area of trees along the bank of the Rio Grande.
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Origin
See bosk.
Noun
(plural bosques)
- (southern US) A gallery forest found growing along a river bank or on the flood plain of a watercourse.
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Sentence Examples
- Nard, Guia de Aranjuez, su historia y description (Madrid, 1851), (illustrated); Alvarez de Quindos, Descripcion historica del real bosque y casa de Aranjuez (Madrid, 1804).