What is another word for thicket?

Pronunciation: [θˈɪkɪt] (IPA)

A thicket is a dense group of bushes, shrubs, or small trees that can be found in a forest or woodland. It is a natural habitat for birds, rodents, and other wildlife. Some synonyms for the word thicket include bramble, copse, grove, brushwood, underbrush, jungle, and tangle. Each of these words describes a collection of vegetation that is similar to a thicket but may have slightly different characteristics. For example, a bramble often refers to a thorny thicket while a copse is a small group of trees or shrubs. Using different synonyms for thicket can add variety to writing and help to create a more vivid description of a natural landscape.

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    • Noun, singular or mass
      bush.
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Usage examples for Thicket

It is a poor thicket, therefore, that does not have at least one good tree with conveniently low branches.
"Ways of Wood Folk"
William J. Long
Calling my companion's attention to this little thicket I said something about the elder growing on the open downs where it always appeared to be out of harmony with its surroundings.
"Afoot in England"
W.H. Hudson
Accordingly, one day, he invited or persuaded her to accompany him on his journey to the remote village, and on the way he got her out of the cart and led her into a close thicket to show her something he had discovered there.
"Afoot in England"
W.H. Hudson

Famous quotes with Thicket

  • Actually I ran away from school when I was 13. No one could find me, and the police were called. I was just hiding in a little thicket of grass at my school, and went to sleep.
    Zhang Ziyi
  • Know'st thou the land where the lemon-trees bloom, Where the gold orange glows in the deep thicket's gloom, Where a wind ever soft from the blue heaven blows, And the groves are of laurel and myrtle and rose
    Johann von Goethe
  • Knowst thou the land where the lemon trees bloom, Where the gold orange glows in the deep thicket's gloom, Where a wind ever soft from the blue heaven blows, And the groves are of laurel and myrtle and rose?
    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Pale purple as the bloom on a ripe plum, veined with the gold of late flowering gorse, set with small slender birches, just turning yellow, with red-berried rowans and thicket of bracken, the heath lay steeped in sunshine.
    Flora Thompson

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