thicket

noun

ˈthi-kət How to pronounce thicket (audio)
Definition of thicketnext
as in forest
a thick patch of shrubbery, small trees, or underbrush flushed a pheasant from a thicket of willows

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Recent Examples of thicket 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. — Zach Helfand, New Yorker, 16 June 2026 Tony Kushner's screenplay turns the thickets of policymaking into a righteous sort of poetry. — Chris Nashawaty, Entertainment Weekly, 13 June 2026 The setting was a lush landscape of rice paddies, red basalt soil, the golden sands of the South China Sea beaches and bamboo thickets. — Pavlo Fedykovych, CNN Money, 12 June 2026 The pungent odor of onions is the opposite of catnip for garden pests looking to munch on your raspberry thicket. — Heather Bien, Southern Living, 10 June 2026 See All Example Sentences for thicket
Recent Examples of Synonyms for thicket
  1. forest
  2. copse
  3. grove
  4. bush
  5. brushwood
  6. coppice
  7. chaparral
  8. tangle
Noun
  • Surrounded by forests there’s plenty of outdoor activities and sightseeing while the charming and walkable Main Street offers plenty of dining and entertainment.
    — Cameron Beall, Southern Living, 16 July 2026
  • Those uninterested in the South of France or the northeastern tip of Spain could enjoy the Mediterranean climate on Gothic-style rooftop terraces overlooking the lush Turkish forest.
    — Katherine McLaughlin, Architectural Digest, 16 July 2026
Definition of forest
Noun
  • 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.
    — John Metcalfe, Mercury News, 4 May 2026
  • His house sits across from what used to be a thick copse of woods.
    — Liam Rappleye, Freep.com, 7 Mar. 2026
Definition of copse
Noun
  • The Ziz Valley is a beautiful river canyon and is home to one of the largest palm groves, which winds along the canyon.
    — Judy Koutsky, Forbes.com, 10 July 2026
  • Realtor Bonnie Willis said the Badger proposal would fit in well with existing 159th Street businesses, including a storage facility, an Amish furniture store, gas station, landscaping companies, a church and picnic grove.
    — Michelle Mullins, Chicago Tribune, 9 July 2026
Definition of grove
Noun
  • The butterfly weed was in full bright orangey-red bloom, and the elderberry bushes were loaded with big balls of white flowers.
    — Sheryl DeVore, Chicago Tribune, 8 July 2026
  • At the same time, a big bull sable galloped out from behind a bush headed for the crest.
    — Jack O'Connor, Outdoor Life, 8 July 2026
Definition of bush
Noun
  • Archaeologists found that the site’s foragers had crafted small huts from brushwood, weaving them into dome-like structures enclosing a central hearth.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 1 May 2026
  • 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.
    — Rosie Conroy, Condé Nast Traveler, 31 Mar. 2026
Definition of brushwood
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
Definition of coppice
Noun
  • Stepping on stems is attention-getting, but the result is a wine that echoes the chaparral of the hillsides surrounding the vineyard.
    — Laura Ness, Mercury News, 5 July 2026
  • An adventure among the mustangs, the chaparrals, the arroyos, the wide purple this and that.
    — Padgett Powell, Harpers Magazine, 30 June 2026
Definition of chaparral
Noun
  • Guidry, at the prow, raised the lantern, revealed in the circle oflight a bobbing tangle of sargassum weed, a swimming snake, a child’s cloth doll.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 16 July 2026
  • Delicate ribbons of fettuccine tangle in a silky sauce of butter and Parmigiano.
    — Jenn Harris, Los Angeles Times, 16 July 2026
Definition of tangle

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