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 The original computers were essentially thickets of light bulbs. — Gideon Lewis-Kraus, New Yorker, 19 Oct. 2026 Finally the buck turned, bounded up on top of the bank, still in thickets where no arrow could get through, and started to walk around my tree. — Al Dawson, Outdoor Life, 15 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 Adjacent are two thickets of papalo, an herb popular in Mexico but little known elsewhere. — Sean Timberlake, Sacbee.com, 12 Aug. 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 Across the street, the Llano River splashes its way over limestone formations and into reed thickets. — Pam Leblanc, Southern Living, 20 July 2026 These traits alone don’t make this tree invasive, but the trees began cross-pollinating with other pear species, whose offspring create thorny thickets that smother native plants and habitat. — Erica Browne Grivas, Better Homes & Gardens, 12 July 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
  • 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
  • The collision Wednesday morning that turned a sleepy stretch of rail lined by olive groves into a scene of carnage came just four weeks before the country votes in a national election.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 29 Oct. 2026
Definition of groves
Noun
  • However, a century of fire suppression has allowed dry vegetation to accumulate in forests that historically had frequently burned.
    — Virginia Iglesias, The Conversation, 3 Nov. 2026
  • There are lots of things gone wild in the forests around Warsaw, like patches of marijuana, and a railroad that used to deliver bread to the city; now, there are trees growing into the steel tracks.
    — Olivia Kan-Sperling, Artforum, 1 Nov. 2026
Definition of forests
Noun
  • The dog was sitting on the far side, at the edge of the woods, looking at him reproachfully.
    — Téa Obreht, New Yorker, 1 Nov. 2026
  • Focusing instead on waterholes or funnels in the woods that might lead to food.
    — Alex Robinson, Outdoor Life, 1 Nov. 2026
Definition of woods

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