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bosk

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noun
a small wood or thicket, especially of bushes.
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Origin of bosk

1250–1300; Middle English boske, variant of busk(e) <Old Norse buskrbush1

Words nearby bosk

boschvark, Bose, Bose-Einstein condensate, Bose-Einstein statistics, bosh, bosk, bosker, bosket, Boskop, Boskop man, boskopoid
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Words related to bosk

clump, underbrush, copse, firth, forest, grove, growth, thicket, underwood, wood, woodland, brushwood, coppice, brake, brush, bush, chaparral, covert, hedge, shrubbery

British Dictionary definitions for bosk

bosk
/ (bÉ’sk) /
noun
literary a small wood of bushes and small trees

Word Origin for bosk

C13: variant of busk bush 1
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