variants
also bosque
as in bush
a thick patch of shrubbery, small trees, or underbrush
the thorny branches of the mesquite bosk provide quail and other desert birds with a safe haven from predators
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Noun
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The island is thick with bush, and there are many places for a small dog to hide.—
CNN.com Wire Service,
Mercury News,
28 Apr. 2025 -
Lamb’s residence was fenced and shielded from view by bushes.—
Jonathan Shorman,
Kansas City Star,
22 Apr. 2025
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All cultural resources identified in the forest (native or colonial) will be protected during the implementation of forestry practices.—
Staff report,
Hartford Courant,
3 May 2025
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The musical is about a New York City gallerist, who, grieving the death of her son, drives cross-country and winds up in a redwood forest, seeking some kind of solace while tree-sitting.—
Michael Paulson,
New York Times,
2 May 2025
Noun
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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
Noun
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The grizzly boiled out of the thicket and came plowing uphill at a dead run, ready to tackle all nine of us.—
Howard Copenhaver,
Outdoor Life,
23 Apr. 2025
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MoffettNathanson noted the thicket of issues that Apple has to navigate regarding tariffs — and that the company is caught in the middle because of China’s importance in the global electronics supply chain.—
Kevin Williams,
Quartz,
22 Apr. 2025
Noun
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The eyes in the sky gazed down on a copse of spindly trees in western Russia, hooking onto where North Korean forces were coalescing, a Ukrainian special operations forces commander, who is being identified only by his call sign, Green, told Newsweek.—
Thomas G. Moukawsher,
Newsweek,
23 Mar. 2025
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Below us were hayfields and stone barns, copses and creeks.—
Nick Paumgarten,
The New Yorker,
10 Feb. 2025
Noun
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Hazardous fire areas were considered to be at greater risk for wildfire due to their proximity to highly flammable vegetation including the native chaparral that is present in many areas of Poway’s open spaces.—
Christian Martinez,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
1 Apr. 2025
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Wildfires are part of the life cycle of forests and the chaparral, which burn with regularity to regenerate themselves and have occurred long before humans populated the Golden State.—
Hugo A Loaiciga,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
25 Mar. 2025
Noun
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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
Noun
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The sequoia saplings destined for Detroit are clones of two giants known as Stagg — the world’s fifth-largest tree — and Waterfall, of the Alder Creek grove, about 150 miles north of Los Angeles.—
Corey Williams,
Los Angeles Times,
22 Apr. 2025
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Twisty olive trees from past groves grew along with towering sycamores, eucalypti, and deodar cedars.—
Francine Kiefer,
Christian Science Monitor,
10 Apr. 2025
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“Bosk.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bosk. Accessed 6 May. 2025.
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