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thicket

[thik-it]

noun

  1. a thick or dense growth of shrubs, bushes, or small trees; a thick coppice.



thicket

/ ˈθɪɪ /

noun

  1. a dense growth of small trees, shrubs, and similar plants

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Other Word Forms

  • thicketed adjective
  • thickety adjective
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Word History and Origins

Origin of thicket1

before 1000; Old English thiccet (not recorded in ME), equivalent to thicce thick + -et noun suffix
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Word History and Origins

Origin of thicket1

Old English thiccet; see thick
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Stone wove drum machines into the dense thickets of sound.

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A 25% import tax on engines, transmissions and other key car parts has come into force in the US, raising pressure on an industry finding its way through a thicket of policy changes.

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It rolled down a cliff and came to rest in a thicket of brush.

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Caruso, 66, has deep experience in building — or attempting to build — in cities across the region and navigating thickets of red tape.

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And by shortening the line-out – a potential area of weakness - they thinned out Ireland's thicket of jumpers.

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