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

Operating data centers in space would avoid an environmental thicket and require less water and energy for cooling.

From The Wall Street Journal

“This is where your mom and I used to come. There’s another way to get here. More direct, through a thicket of koa trees. But you found it all the same.”

From Literature

When we reach the bluff, Babs points to a patch of dense thickets surrounding its base.

From Literature

Along a remote stretch of the north Somerset coast, views of rolling hills and farmhouses are suddenly interrupted by a thicket of construction cranes.

From BBC

I whip around and run, fast and hard, through the trees, over rocks, through thickets of weeds.

From Literature

Related Words

• clump
• underbrush