Thesaurus results for BOSCAGES

boscages

noun

variants also boskages

plural of boscage

as in bushes

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

The dog was sitting on the far side, at the edge of the woods, looking at him reproachfully.

— Téa Obreht, New Yorker, 1 Nov. 2026
Focusing instead on waterholes or funnels in the woods that might lead to food.

— Alex Robinson, Outdoor Life, 1 Nov. 2026

Definition of woods

Noun

Then, just nine months later, came the collision Wednesday morning that turned a sleepy stretch of rail lined by olive groves near the village of Urda into a scene of carnage.

— Joseph Wilson, Los Angeles Times, 29 Oct. 2026
The collision Wednesday morning that turned a sleepy stretch of rail lined by olive groves into a scene of carnage came just four weeks before the country votes in a national election.

— ABC News, ABC News, 29 Oct. 2026

Definition of groves

Noun

During takeoff, all four tires exploded, and the brakes failed after pieces of the tires damaged the hydraulic system.

— Madeleine Marr, Miami Herald, 3 Nov. 2026
Cadillac has also had plenty of reliability problems this year, usually with its front brakes overheating.

— Jonathan M. Gitlin, ArsTechnica, 2 Nov. 2026

Definition of brakes

Noun

However, a century of fire suppression has allowed dry vegetation to accumulate in forests that historically had frequently burned.

— Virginia Iglesias, The Conversation, 3 Nov. 2026
There are lots of things gone wild in the forests around Warsaw, like patches of marijuana, and a railroad that used to deliver bread to the city; now, there are trees growing into the steel tracks.

— Olivia Kan-Sperling, Artforum, 1 Nov. 2026

Definition of forests

Noun

Slightly west, Sultan-Epe lies beside a deep canyon, where a stream threads through thickets of mulberry, buckthorn, blackberry, and wild herbs—another improbable pocket of green in one of Kazakhstan’s driest regions.

— Avantika Chaturvedi, Architectural Digest, 5 Nov. 2026
The original computers were essentially thickets of light bulbs.

— Gideon Lewis-Kraus, New Yorker, 19 Oct. 2026

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