variants
also boskage
as in grove
a thick patch of shrubbery, small trees, or underbrush
the land was dotted with tangled boscage that slowed any passage through it
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Noun
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The park is ideal for hiking, with trails that cater to everyone from beginners who prefer a short trek to more seasoned adventurers who want a full-day hike through bamboo groves and mossy mountain paths.—
Jasmine Ting,
Condé Nast Traveler,
20 Mar. 2026 -
The property itself is an 1800s-era olive mill, stretching across fragrant lemon groves and leafy olive trees.—
Elly Leavitt,
Vogue,
18 Mar. 2026
Noun
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The new One Box brake system helps recuperate some energy under braking.—
Sean Evans,
Robb Report,
24 Mar. 2026
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Meanwhile, there is a grassroots effort to put the brakes on these delivery robots.—
Charlie De Mar,
CBS News,
24 Mar. 2026
Noun
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The city of Atlanta announced the acquisition of the 50-acre Tatum Lakes property, marking a significant step toward turning the urban forest into a publicly accessible park and nature preserve.—
Riley Bunch,
AJC.com,
27 Mar. 2026
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These partnerships help highlight the series’ themes, promoting the discovery of the wonders hidden in the French forests and beyond, but also emphasizing respect for biodiversity, and the importance of food education for children.—
Kevin Giraud,
Variety,
27 Mar. 2026
Noun
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The seedlings and saplings are mostly knee-high to chest-high and mixed with thickets of ceanothus and other post-fire brush growing amid the true giants that stand dead among them.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
13 Mar. 2026
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Masri’s drumming is lithe and spacious even at its most aggressive; just as Alcorn’s guitar slides move with a gravity-defying, naturalistic force, his attacks seem to sprout out of each other independently, emerging in thickets.—
H.D. Angel,
Pitchfork,
4 Mar. 2026
Noun
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Longtime fans may recall that on Thanksgiving Night 2009, Woods’ Cadillac Escalade collided with a fire hydrant, tree and several bushes near his Central Florida home, and he was ticketed with careless driving.—
Devoun Cetoute,
Miami Herald,
27 Mar. 2026
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Calling a tall bush a tree does not make it so.—
Voice of the People,
New York Daily News,
26 Mar. 2026
Noun
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Along the way, hikers are surrounded by mafic southern mixed chaparral, a unique type of chaparral vegetation that is found in mafic soils, which are rich in magnesium and iron.—
Maura Fox,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
6 Feb. 2026
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In the hills, in the hollows, up the draws and the old dirt logging roads, hidden in the chaparral above the fog line, growing and selling weed became a way of life, woven into the community and its economy.—
Scott Eden,
Rolling Stone,
1 Feb. 2026
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The two most straightforward of the trials will involve large-scale planting of trees and bioenergy crops, including Miscanthus grasses and coppice willow, reports Robert Lea for AZoCleanTech.—
Alex Fox,
Smithsonian Magazine,
27 May 2021
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Another strategy, called short rotation coppice, involves planting fast-growing trees such as willows and poplars in extremely dense rows.—
Eric Toensmeier,
Scientific American,
1 Aug. 2020
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During one expedition to what was once London, a young scientist, out gathering brushwood, unearths a small vacuum flask, inside which is a handwritten account of life in a small village called Beadle during the days leading up to the lunar catastrophe.—
Michael Dirda,
Washington Post,
2 Feb. 2023
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Bare dunes were planted with ‘brushwood and windbreaks, perpendicular to wind direction’ so that the dunes do not interfere with the canal system and irrigated farmlands.—
Azera Parveen Rahman,
Quartz,
27 Oct. 2022
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“Boscage.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/boscage. Accessed 30 Mar. 2026.
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