wildwood

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Recent Examples of wildwood Right until the autumn of 2023, until the slaughter began: There’s half an acre of wildwood behind our house in Oregon, full of blackberry brambles, mostly impassible. — Sara Stridsberg september 15, Literary Hub, 15 Sep. 2025 My footfall sets the tempo for this wildwood symphony. — Arati Menon, Condé Nast Traveler, 17 Apr. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for wildwood
  1. grove
  2. copse
  3. thicket
Noun
  • The Shelter Island porch stretches the entire width of the house, which nestles in a grove of trees about 250 feet from the shore.
    — Fred Albert, Forbes.com, 4 July 2026
  • But all of it—the estate, the vineyards, the olive groves, the food, and the pace—is part of the same story.
    — Tia Lovisa Moreira, Travel + Leisure, 2 July 2026
Definition of grove
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  • 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
  • His house sits across from what used to be a thick copse of woods.
    — Liam Rappleye, Freep.com, 7 Mar. 2026
Definition of copse
Noun
  • The new ones appear reassuringly sturdy, even without the thicket of cross-braces that typically fence off the sidewalk from the street.
    — Justin Davidson, Curbed, 24 June 2026
  • The answer appears to be that, while such a pathway may be possible, hacking it through the thicket of health care economics and politics would require dozens — or even hundreds — of difficult choices.
    — Dan Walters, Mercury News, 23 June 2026
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“Wildwood.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wildwood. Accessed 8 Jul. 2026.

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