thickets

noun

plural of thicket
as in bushes
a thick patch of shrubbery, small trees, or underbrush flushed a pheasant from a thicket of willows

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Recent Examples of thickets The original computers were essentially thickets of light bulbs. — Gideon Lewis-Kraus, New Yorker, 19 Oct. 2026 Finally the buck turned, bounded up on top of the bank, still in thickets where no arrow could get through, and started to walk around my tree. — Al Dawson, Outdoor Life, 15 Oct. 2026 Cue an enthralling chase sequence, doubling back through those higgledy-piggledy Portland streetscapes, toward the woods — the impenetrable thickets and thorns of which magically part in her presence. — Guy Lodge, Variety, 11 Oct. 2026 Wartime tunnels and bunkers Before 1965, Vịnh Mốc was a tranquil fishing village in central Vietnam, with a lush landscape of rice paddies, bamboo thickets and golden beaches. — Maureen O'Hare, CNN Money, 26 Sep. 2026 Adjacent are two thickets of papalo, an herb popular in Mexico but little known elsewhere. — Sean Timberlake, Sacbee.com, 12 Aug. 2026 The retaliation works, and soon Cole and his men are marching on foot, scrabbling their way through thickets and swamps. — Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 20 July 2026 Across the street, the Llano River splashes its way over limestone formations and into reed thickets. — Pam Leblanc, Southern Living, 20 July 2026 These traits alone don’t make this tree invasive, but the trees began cross-pollinating with other pear species, whose offspring create thorny thickets that smother native plants and habitat. — Erica Browne Grivas, Better Homes & Gardens, 12 July 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for thickets
  1. copses
  2. groves
  3. forests
  4. woods
Noun
  • The vegetation is mostly grassland, which shines with an almost alien-green intensity in the spring, dotted with copses of twisted oak and buckeye trees.
    — John Metcalfe, Mercury News, 4 May 2026
  • Walk in forests where dragonflies buzz and orchids bloom in secret copses.
    — Lydia Bell, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 Jan. 2026
Definition of copses
Noun
  • Just a half-hour north of San Diego, the property is comprised of over 600 acres of hills, meadows, Japanese gardens, and citrus groves, including 30 miles of private hiking trails and five acres of bio-intensive gardens.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 Oct. 2026
  • But that yield is reliant on farmers being able to access and harvest their groves.
    — Chas Newkey-Burden, TheWeek, 20 Oct. 2026
Definition of groves
Noun
  • Selective harvesting can help restore kelp forests, Salomon says, but doing so effectively requires sustained effort.
    — Victoria Malloy, Time, 21 Oct. 2026
  • Beyond the breaks stood forests of giant kelp, each capable of growing as much as 50 centimeters a day.
    — Alec Luhn, Scientific American, 20 Oct. 2026
Definition of forests
Noun
  • In an elaborate fairy-tale takeoff, Homer abandons Bart and Lisa in the middle of the woods to help solve the family’s food-shortage problem.
    — Joshua Kurp, Vulture, 26 Oct. 2026
  • Until this day in the woods, Dad, too, had treated my weight as her problem.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 26 Oct. 2026
Definition of woods

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“Thickets.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/thickets. Accessed 28 Oct. 2026.

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