Thesaurus results for THICKET

thicket

noun

ˈthi-kət

Definition of thicket

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 Adjacent are two thickets of papalo, an herb popular in Mexico but little known elsewhere. — Sean Timberlake, Sacbee.com, 12 Aug. 2026 There’s rarely anything as straightforward as a kick drum, a hi-hat, or even a bassline here; instead, everything is smeared, all origins occulted in a thicket of echoes and reflections. — Philip Sherburne, Pitchfork, 4 Aug. 2026 The main challenge for ChapsVision will be integrating its own thicket of subsidiaries and products, according to Nick Patience, an analyst with The Futurum Group. — Bloomberg, Mercury News, 28 July 2026 The retaliation works, and soon Cole and his men are marching on foot, scrabbling their way through thickets and swamps. — Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 20 July 2026 See All Example Sentences for thicket

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Noun

Natural Beauty Beauty is born from nature in Greece due to an incredibly diverse landscape replete with everything from mountains, lakes, forests, and caves to craters, coasts, gorges, and volcanoes.

— Jennifer Tzeses, Condé Nast Traveler, 10 Sep. 2026
Indonesia has been plagued by forest and land fires for decades, but an intensifying El Niño pattern this year and a prolonged dry season worsened the impact of the fires.

— ABC News, ABC News, 10 Sep. 2026

Definition of forest

Noun

The rich landscape gives rise to diverse flavors, from rice paddies in the plains and orange groves in the valleys to grapevines in the countryside.

— Condé Nast Traveler, Condé Nast Traveler, 3 Sep. 2026
The grove on Santa Rosa Island, which sits about 26 miles off the coast of Santa Barbara, is a genetically distinct subspecies that occurs nowhere else on Earth.

— Corinne Purtill, Los Angeles Times, 2 Sep. 2026

Definition of grove

Noun

There, wisteria blooms on trellises, raspberries ripen on bushes, a cold-plunge pool commands sweeping views of downtown Manhattan—and a chicken coop looms in the corner.

— Ingrid Abramovitch, Architectural Digest, 10 Sep. 2026
As the plane taxied to the terminal in Pennsylvania, Grosof looked out the window and noticed members of the military in ghillie suits, a type of camouflage, with long guns in bushes surrounding the runway.

— Alexandra Skores, CNN Money, 10 Sep. 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

Diagramming software that turns a tangle of process steps or network layouts into something readable usually comes with a subscription attached.

— StackCommerce Team, PC Magazine, 9 Sep. 2026
The pain of his inability to speak about the tangle of anger and shame gnawing at him is palpable.

— David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 6 Sep. 2026

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