thicket
noun
a thick or dense growth of shrubs, bushes, or small trees; a thick coppice.
thickety
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a word derived from
thicket.
Example Sentences
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Posed against an outdoor, thickety background, the handsome, long-faced sisters in floor-length gowns could be protagonists in a Brontë novel.
From New York Times ● Apr. 1, 2010
I took him into a very thickety place, and made him back up agin a tree and put back his arms around it.
From Hoosier Mosaics by Maurice Thompson
He walked silently on, sometimes through spots of open ground; at others, traversing belts of woodland, or tracts of thickety jungle.
From The Plant Hunters Adventures Among the Himalaya Mountains by Mayne Reid
Go yourself to the brush-grown, thickety wood borders and clearings he loves and let him be his own interpreter.
From What Bird is That? A Pocket Museum of the Land Birds of the Eastern United States Arranged According to Season by Frank M. Chapman
The next instant the stag charged at me from the cover of the thickety fence corner.
From Reed Anthony, Cowman by Andy Adams
