as in forest
a thick patch of shrubbery, small trees, or underbrush
a dense bosquet shields the trailhead from the bridle path
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The humidity lifts, replaced by bright, mild days made for the historic streets of Savannah and Charleston, or the maritime forests and salt marshes beyond them.
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There are brisk 7am forest walks, group yoga, breath work, and a class on Lanserhof healing exercises, which combine stretching, tapping, and movement.
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The Shelter Island porch stretches the entire width of the house, which nestles in a grove of trees about 250 feet from the shore.
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But all of it—the estate, the vineyards, the olive groves, the food, and the pace—is part of the same story.
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The vegetation is mostly grassland, which shines with an almost alien-green intensity in the spring, dotted with copses of twisted oak and buckeye trees.
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His house sits across from what used to be a thick copse of woods.
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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.
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Another strategy, called short rotation coppice, involves planting fast-growing trees such as willows and poplars in extremely dense rows.
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Back then, similarly frustrated with the difficulties of the commute, my dad would park off the shoulder of the Route 3 off-ramp, in the mud next to a thicket of phragmites.
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Tony Kushner's screenplay turns the thickets of policymaking into a righteous sort of poetry.
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Archaeologists found that the site’s foragers had crafted small huts from brushwood, weaving them into dome-like structures enclosing a central hearth.
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Here, the train rolls into one of Scotland’s most remote stations, arriving via a line built up on a raft of roots and brushwood because traditional foundations failed in the boggy ground.
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An adventure among the mustangs, the chaparrals, the arroyos, the wide purple this and that.
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As the Eaton and Palisades fires roared across the Altadena area and the coastal Santa Monica Mountains in January 2025, the flames were fueled in part by accumulations of bone-dry chaparral, brush and other vegetation.
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Many hedges, bushes, and trees can block sight lines, so even the nosiest of neighbors will be forced to mind their own business.
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These wonders can grow as strange, twisted bushes or as giant, spindly trees.
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“Bosquet.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bosquet. Accessed 5 Jul. 2026.
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