Synonyms of thickets

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

Synonyms & Similar Words

• bushes
• copses
• groves
• forests
• woods
• coppices
• jungles
• brakes
• tangles
• woodlands
• coverts
• bosquets
• brambles
• boscages
• bosks
• hedges
• scrublands
• chaparrals
• brushwoods
• brushes
• scrubs
• canebrakes
• woodlots
• stands
• wildwoods
• greenwoods

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of thickets

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

The solution, Shive and Conway said, is removing many of the overgrown smaller trees that surround the giant sequoias in dense thickets, like white fir, red fir and incense cedar. — Paul Rogers, Mercury News, 13 Apr. 2026