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thicket

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of thicket

a thick patch of shrubbery, small trees, or underbrush

flushed a pheasant from a thicket of willows

Synonyms of thicket

boscage (also boskage), bosk (or bosque), bosquet, brake, brushwood, chaparral, coppice, copse, covert

Words Related to thicket

brush, bush, scrub, scrubland

bramble, jungle, tangle

grove, hedge, stand, woodlot

forest, greenwood, wildwood, wood, woodland

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