thickety
- 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
In this thickety covert the fugitive made his final stand, taking refuge in an immense old live-oak, the mossy festoons of which partially screened him from view.
From A Texas Matchmaker by Adams, Andy
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 Reid, Mayne
The road soon was among the hills; rough, thickety, wild; from one glen into another, down and up steep ridge sides, always mounting of course by degrees.
From Daisy in the Field by Warner, Susan
After this bold thinning, instead of dense thickety bushes we have a few strong, well-branched rods to each stool.
From Wood and Garden Notes and thoughts, practical and critical, of a working amateur by Jekyll, Gertrude
