Entry Word: thicket

Function: noun

Meaning: a thick patch of shrubbery, small trees, or underbrush <flushed a pheasant from a thicket of willows>

Synonyms brake, brushwood, chaparral, coppice, copse, covert

Related Words canebrake; brush, bush, scrub, scrubland; bramble, jungle, tangle; grove, hedge, stand, woodlot; forest, greenwood, wildwood, wood, woodland