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
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 Andy Adams
In the autumn it is found in hedgerows, thickets and weedy grainfields, rarely however, straying far from some thickety cover.
From Birds Illustrated by Color Photography [January, 1898] A Monthly Serial designed to Promote Knowledge of Bird-Life by Various
The next instant the stag charged at me from the cover of the thickety fence corner.
From Reed Anthony, Cowman by Andy Adams
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 Susan Warner
