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 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 By Todd Woody, Bloomberg On a warm summer morning, two fire officials navigate an SUV along a narrow road that switchbacks high into the hills above the town of Fairfax, California, where thickets of trees conceal hundreds of homes. — Bloomberg, Mercury News, 8 July 2026 Only a depression in the ground remains at the Ingalls Dugout Site, but eagle-eyed visitors can still spot the spring, tablelands, thickets of plum trees, and other landmarksr described in the book of the same name. — Alicia Underlee Nelson, Midwest Living, 22 June 2026 Tony Kushner's screenplay turns the thickets of policymaking into a righteous sort of poetry. — Chris Nashawaty, Entertainment Weekly, 13 June 2026 The setting was a lush landscape of rice paddies, red basalt soil, the golden sands of the South China Sea beaches and bamboo thickets. — Pavlo Fedykovych, CNN Money, 12 June 2026 They can also be seen around mountains, swamps, cane thickets, wooded stream corridors, and rural habitats. — Jack Armstrong, Memphis Commercial Appeal, 3 June 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
  • Ancient olive trees, cypress groves, wildflowers, secluded coves, and private beaches cover much of the property, while a deep-water dock and helipad make the island easily accessible.
    — Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 7 Aug. 2026
  • Narrow-gauge railroad tracks curve gently up mountain slopes and through groves of the railroad’s namesake trees, now a backdrop for a scenic, one-hour journey back in time.
    — Cu Fleshman, Travel + Leisure, 7 Aug. 2026
Definition of groves
Noun
  • We were guided to interior forests, aged tabby houses and waterway edges.
    — Maximilíano Durón, ARTnews.com, 11 Aug. 2026
  • Around Woodland Margins In the wild, poison ivy typically grows best in the dappled light along the edges of forests or along hiking trails that get just a touch of sun.
    — Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 10 Aug. 2026
Definition of forests
Noun
  • The tubers were rescued Friday amid dense woods and thick ground cover by two state troopers and three Michigan Department of Natural Resources conservation officers.
    — Dennis Romero, NBC news, 12 Aug. 2026
  • Think white linens, ocean-blue velour bed frames, warm woods, gauzy curtains, and full-force air-conditioning to beat that New York humidity.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 12 Aug. 2026
Definition of woods

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