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 On the morning of the anniversary, four deer emerged from a reed thicket next to the lawn, and two Canada geese flew by. — Ian Frazier, New Yorker, 2 Nov. 2026 Phragmites form dense thickets in or near shallow water and displace native wetland plants. — Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 17 Oct. 2026 Cue an enthralling chase sequence, doubling back through those higgledy-piggledy Portland streetscapes, toward the woods — the impenetrable thickets and thorns of which magically part in her presence. — Guy Lodge, Variety, 11 Oct. 2026 Wartime tunnels and bunkers Before 1965, Vịnh Mốc was a tranquil fishing village in central Vietnam, with a lush landscape of rice paddies, bamboo thickets and golden beaches. — Maureen O'Hare, CNN Money, 26 Sep. 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
  • Five cabins are next, set to open in an oak forest on the property, where winemaker Cristián Vallejo ages natural wine in clay amphorae.
    — Megan Spurrell, Condé Nast Traveler, 13 Nov. 2026
  • Roughly an hour and a half from campus sits Salt Creek Falls, which offers spectacular waterfall views poking through dense forests.
    — Austin Perry, FOXNews.com, 12 Nov. 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
  • If space permits, homeowners can recreate a slice of that with a small grove of oaks.
    — Luke Miller, Better Homes & Gardens, 31 Oct. 2026
  • Then, just nine months later, came the collision Wednesday morning that turned a sleepy stretch of rail lined by olive groves near the village of Urda into a scene of carnage.
    — Joseph Wilson, Los Angeles Times, 29 Oct. 2026
Definition of grove
Noun
  • The latter is a short flight from the brand’s Serengeti lodge and has been built with a bush-and-beach pairing in mind.
    — Megan Spurrell, Condé Nast Traveler, 13 Nov. 2026
  • The swaying bushes showed that the buck was now chasing one or both does.
    — ANGUS CAMERON, Outdoor Life, 11 Nov. 2026
Definition of bush
Noun
  • Phillips found many ways to monetize the estate, even turning brushwood cleared from the courses into paintbrushes.
    — Hadley Hall Meares, Vanity Fair, 29 Oct. 2026
  • 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
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
  • Native chaparral, the shrubby natural landscapes of the foothills, are becoming stressed and being replaced by grasses and other fire-prone invasive plants.
    — Blanca Begert, Los Angeles Times, 20 Oct. 2026
  • 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
Definition of chaparral
Noun
  • In people with Alzheimer’s, amyloid plaques and tau tangles build up in the brain and begin accumulating years before noticeable symptoms surface.
    — Tribune News Service, Baltimore Sun, 11 Nov. 2026
  • Tangier is a charming tangle of small houses connected by narrow roads traversed by golf carts and exceedingly few cars.
    — John Anglim, CNN Money, 11 Nov. 2026
Definition of tangle

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