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 There were rocky caves along the steep walls of the nullah, and thickets that even a buffalo would have trouble barging through. — Leslie E. Tassell, Outdoor Life, 27 Aug. 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 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
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
  • Mansour persevered, turning out bright canvases of olive groves and peasants that brought to mind his former home and were well received.
    — News Desk, Artforum, 28 Aug. 2026
  • The rest of the property is given over to landscaped Mediterranean gardens and olive and almond groves, with views toward the Tramuntana Mountains.
    — Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 28 Aug. 2026
Definition of groves
Noun
  • This coastal town, just south of the Oregon border, sits near lush redwood forests and boasts an 1856 lighthouse.
    — Daniel de Visé, USA Today, 25 Aug. 2026
  • Liis Bo Eau de Parfum Inspired by the towering redwood forests of California, Bo combines vanilla bean with elemi, tobacco leaves, and of course, redwood pines.
    — Ariel Wodarcyk, InStyle, 25 Aug. 2026
Definition of forests
Noun
  • While the settlement may put Meta investors' minds at ease for now, while setting a perhaps reassuring precedent for the rest of social media, analysts don't think the Mark Zuckerberg company is completely out of the legal woods.
    — Tobias Burns, CNBC, 26 Aug. 2026
  • The father-daughter duo has set up shop ensconced in the woods, herding donkeys and so far evading the violence closing in on them from the outside.
    — Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 25 Aug. 2026
Definition of woods

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“Thickets.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/thickets. Accessed 2 Sep. 2026.

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