A thicket, a small wood, copse or grove.

A dense growth of shrubs, underwood, and small trees; a place where low trees or bushes grow thickly together; a brake. Cf. thick, n. 5.

A bush, a thicket.

A thicket.

A thicket: = shaw, n.1 1b.

A mass of growing trees or shrubs; a thicket, grove; woody undergrowth; sylvan scenery.

General attributive, as greenwood adventurer, †greenwood linde, greenwood shade, greenwood shaw, greenwood tree, etc.

(from A. 1) = thicket, n. Now rare.

A clump of bushes, brushwood, or briers; a thicket. Also attributive, as in brake-axe.

In the same sense, shaw of wood (archaic); see also greenwood shaw at greenwood, n. compounds. Cf. wood-shaw, n. (common in Middle English verse).

A dense growth of bushes; a thicket. Also (in quots. 1726, 1825): a patch of untillable land characterized by such thickets.

collectively. A clump of shrubs, a thicket; bushy ground. (Cf. bosk, n. 2) Obsolete except as reintroduced in sense 9.

A small group of trees or bushes; a clump. (Cf. toft, n.1 4, which perhaps belongs here.)

‘A thicket, a cluster of bushes’ (Johnson); a mass of bushes. ? Obsolete.

Woodland: a by-form of boscage, n.

U.S. (local.) (a) A dense thicket in swampy or low-lying ground; (b) a lumberman's term for a rocky shallow in a stream.

A thicket or copse.

Canadian. A grove or clump of trees.

A thicket; a thick-set plantation.

Woody growth, boscage.

attributive and in other combinations, as thicket-maze, thicket-haunting.

A thicket of bushes and underwood; a small wood.

A little wood.

A thick growth of plants or shrubs; a thicket. Also (in extended use): a thick growth or tuft of hair.

Dense, tangled undergrowth or scrub consisting of invasive shrubs and small trees; a thicket of this kind. Also: a tract of land covered in dense…