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Definition of Thicket
1. Noun. A dense growth of bushes.
Generic synonyms: Botany, Flora, Vegetation
Specialized synonyms: Brake, Canebrake, Spinney, Underbrush, Undergrowth, Underwood
Derivative terms: Brushy
Definition of Thicket
1. n. A wood or a collection of trees, shrubs, etc., closely set; as, a ram caught in a thicket.
Definition of Thicket
1. Noun. A dense, but generally small, growth of shrubs, bushes or small trees; a copse. ¹
2. Noun. (context: computing figuratively) The collection of many small linked files created when a document is saved in HTML format by some word processors and web site creation software. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Thicket
1. a dense growth of shrubs or small trees [n -S] : THICKETY [adj]
Medical Definition of Thicket
1. A wood or a collection of trees, shrubs, etc, closely set; as, a ram caught in a thicket. Origin: AS. Iccet. See Thick. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Thicket
Literary usage of Thicket
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Adventure Guide to Texas by Kimberly Young (1999)
"Special Attraction The Big thicket I here's a place where visitors sit at the
crossroads ... The Big thicket just north of Beaumont provides the same sense, ..."
2. The Jurist by Great Britain Courts (1865)
"They also contended, that an entire wood, called Long thicket, had been dedicated to
... The entire wood of Long thicket could not be treated as ornamental. ..."
3. The Complete Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott by Walter Scott (1900)
"And to the thicket wanders slow The hind beside the hart. The woodlark at his
partner's side Twitters his closing song— All meet whom day and care divide, ..."
4. The Prairie: A Tale by James Fenimore Cooper (1898)
"... His voice was lost in the thicket, into which he had suffered himself to he
led hy Paul while speaking, too much occupied hy thoughts which dwelt on ..."
5. The Rebellion Record: A Diary of American Events by Frank Moore, Edward Everett (1867)
"... so dense was the thicket that it was impossible to ascertain, at the moment,
the exact position of any Hue, nor was I able to find Brigadier- General ..."