thicket
Americannoun
noun
Other Word Forms
- thicketed adjective
- thickety adjective
Etymology
Origin of thicket
before 1000; Old English thiccet (not recorded in ME), equivalent to thicce thick + -et noun suffix
Example Sentences
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Prior to Handsome and Duane’s arrival, Twitch had made her way across the river to place herself among a thicket of weeds.
From Literature
Operating data centers in space would avoid an environmental thicket and require less water and energy for cooling.
“This is where your mom and I used to come. There’s another way to get here. More direct, through a thicket of koa trees. But you found it all the same.”
From Literature
When we reach the bluff, Babs points to a patch of dense thickets surrounding its base.
From Literature
Along a remote stretch of the north Somerset coast, views of rolling hills and farmhouses are suddenly interrupted by a thicket of construction cranes.
From BBC
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