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THICKET
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A dense growth of bushes
Synonyms:
brush; brushwood; coppice; copse; thicket
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("thicket" is a kind of...):
botany; flora; vegetation (all the plant life in a particular region or period)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "thicket"):
brake (an area thickly overgrown usually with one kind of plant)
canebrake (a dense growth of cane (especially giant cane))
spinney (a copse that shelters game)
underbrush; undergrowth; underwood (the brush (small trees and bushes and ferns etc.) growing beneath taller trees in a wood or forest)
Context examples:
But just then—crack! crack! crack!—three musket-shots flashed out of the thicket.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
Somewhere out there in the snow, screened from his sight by trees and thickets, Henry knew that the wolf-pack, One Ear, and Bill were coming together.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
I do not know what kind of creatures inhabit such a thicket, but several times we heard the plunging of large, heavy animals quite close to us.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
In front of the door he observed a bird which had caught itself in the thicket.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
Thickets of green nutmeg-trees were dotted here and there with the red columns and the broad shadow of the pines; and the first mingled their spice with the aroma of the others.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
He came out of a thicket and found himself face to face with the slow-witted bird.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
It may seem to you rash that even for so short a distance I should quit the shelter of our friendly thicket, but you will remember that we were many miles from Ape-town, that so far as we knew the creatures had not discovered our retreat, and that in any case with a rifle in my hands I had no fear of them.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
But there went a report through all the land of the beautiful sleeping Briar Rose (for so the king’s daughter was called): so that, from time to time, several kings’ sons came, and tried to break through the thicket into the palace.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
Soon we could hear their footfalls as they ran and the cracking of the branches as they breasted across a bit of thicket.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
A favourite trick of his was to lose his trail in running water and then lie quietly in a near-by thicket while their baffled cries arose around him.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
