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
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
There were several thickety groves, extending from the main chaparral out for considerable distance on the prairie, but not of as rank a growth as on the alluvial river bottoms.
From Cattle Brands A Collection of Western Camp-fire Stories by Andy Adams
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 Gertrude Jekyll
This should be mixed with various bushes, as hollies, thorns, so as to make a wild hedge, or thickety obstruction to the inroads of cattle.
From Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume V (of 10) by J. G. (John Gibson) Lockhart
