thicket+(noun)

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• thicket — ► NOUN ▪ a dense group of bushes or trees. ORIGIN Old English, related to THICK(Cf. ↑thickly) …   English terms dictionary

• thicket — noun Etymology: Middle English *thikket, from Old English thiccet, from thicce thick Date: before 12th century 1. a dense growth of shrubbery or small trees ; coppice 2. something resembling a thicket in density or impenetrability ; tangle < a… …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• thicket — noun rabbits taking refuge in the thicket Syn: copse, coppice, grove, brake, covert, clump; wood, woodlot, bush …   Thesaurus of popular words

• thicket tinamou — noun A tinamou, Crypturellus cinnamomeus …   Wiktionary

• thicket — noun a) A dense, but generally small, growth of shrubs, bushes or small trees; a copse. b) The collection of many small linked files created when a document is saved in HTML format by some word processors and web site creation software …   Wiktionary

• thicket — noun a dense group of bushes or trees. Origin OE thiccet (see thick, et1) …   English new terms dictionary

• thicket — noun (C) a group of bushes and small trees …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

• thicket — UK [ˈθɪkɪt] / US noun [countable] Word forms thicket : singular thicket plural thickets an area with a lot of bushes and small trees growing very close together …   English dictionary

• thicket — /ˈθɪkət / (say thikuht) noun a thick or dense growth of shrubs, bushes, or small trees; a thick coppice. {Middle English, Old English þiccet, from þicce thick + et, noun suffix} …  

• thicket — thick|et [ θıkıt ] noun count an area with a lot of bushes and small trees growing very close together …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

• thicket — [ˈθɪkɪt] noun [C] an area with a lot of bushes and small trees growing very close together …   Dictionary for writing and speaking English