thicket

American  

[thik-it] / ˈθɪk ɪt /

noun

1. a thick or dense growth of shrubs, bushes, or small trees; a thick coppice.

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thicket British  

/ ˈθɪkɪt /

noun

1. a dense growth of small trees, shrubs, and similar plants

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Other Word Forms

• thicketed adjective
• thickety adjective

Etymology

Origin of thicket

before 1000; Old English thiccet (not recorded in ME), equivalent to thicce thick + -et noun suffix

Example Sentences

Then brush, predominantly whitethorn and manzanita, interspersed in waist-high thickets.

From Los Angeles Times

To make this photo I crawled into a thicket of ferns at the Sunset Marquis Hotel.

From Los Angeles Times

Participants spend months learning how to plant orchards, raise free-range livestock and tap syrup from the thickets of maple and sycamore trees.

From The Wall Street Journal

Sable quickly got to work but soon ran into a thicket of litigation.

From The Wall Street Journal

Then in one motion, Autumn unsheathes her blade and gives the thicket an experimental tomahawk slice.

From Literature

Related Words

• clump
• underbrush