thickets

noun

plural of thicket
as in bushes
a thick patch of shrubbery, small trees, or underbrush flushed a pheasant from a thicket of willows

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Recent Examples of thickets By Todd Woody, Bloomberg On a warm summer morning, two fire officials navigate an SUV along a narrow road that switchbacks high into the hills above the town of Fairfax, California, where thickets of trees conceal hundreds of homes. — Bloomberg, Mercury News, 8 July 2026 Only a depression in the ground remains at the Ingalls Dugout Site, but eagle-eyed visitors can still spot the spring, tablelands, thickets of plum trees, and other landmarksr described in the book of the same name. — Alicia Underlee Nelson, Midwest Living, 22 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 They can also be seen around mountains, swamps, cane thickets, wooded stream corridors, and rural habitats. — Jack Armstrong, Memphis Commercial Appeal, 3 June 2026 These highly adaptable plants tend to sucker to form small but manageable thickets. — Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 29 May 2026 For the bluebuck, the company is partnering with the nonprofit Advanced Conservation Strategies to navigate regulatory thickets in potential host countries where the animals could live on wild land with the proper vegetation and climate, in herds large enough to be genetically viable. — Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 30 Apr. 2026 This tree is notorious for being highly invasive, often cross-pollinating with other pear varieties, resulting in dense, thorny thickets that disrupt local ecosystems. — Sj McShane, Martha Stewart, 29 Apr. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for thickets
  1. copses
  2. groves
  3. forests
  4. woods
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
  • Walk in forests where dragonflies buzz and orchids bloom in secret copses.
    — Lydia Bell, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 Jan. 2026
Definition of copses
Noun
  • But all of it—the estate, the vineyards, the olive groves, the food, and the pace—is part of the same story.
    — Tia Lovisa Moreira, Travel + Leisure, 2 July 2026
  • Known as Villa Uglione, the estate sits high on a hill near the quiet villages of Tavarnelle Val di Pesa and Barberino Val d’Elsa, surrounded by rolling vineyards and olive groves.
    — Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 1 July 2026
Definition of groves
Noun
  • New satellite missions and increasingly sophisticated mapping techniques continue improving scientists’ understanding of global forests every year.
    — Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 14 July 2026
  • Over 800 wildfires are burning through forests in Canada, creating heavy smoke that could potentially affect millions of Americans this week.
    — Kenton Gewecke, ABC News, 14 July 2026
Definition of forests
Noun
  • Another attendee, 28-year-old Jerard Jackson, was reported missing after the festival, July 29, and his body was later found in the woods nearby.
    — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 14 July 2026
  • The route winds slowly uphill through thick woods, then reaches the iconic Horseshoe Curve, where the tracks bend sharply around the mountainside in a massive horseshoe shape.
    — Abby Price, Travel + Leisure, 14 July 2026
Definition of woods

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