| 单词 | thicket |
| 释义 | thicket (once / 553 pages) n A thicket refers to a dense growth of bushes or trees — what you try to avoid by tending to the plants in your backyard. The word thicket comes from the word thick, which means close together or dense. If you are "thick as thieves," then you are close friends. A thicket is a growth of trees, bushes, or shrubbery that is very close together, often making it difficult for people to walk through or for Red Riding Hood to find her way out of to Grandmother's. WORD FAMILYthicket: thickets USAGE EXAMPLESCornus sanguinea ‘Arctic Sun’, with its thicket of bare branches in shades of cream through orange and scarlet, is my favorite of the bright-bark dogwoods. Seattle Times(Dec 21, 2016) Ubisoft games often dive headlong into contemporary or historical political thickets. Time(Dec 20, 2016) Human remains of eight women, a man and the toddler were found strewn along several miles of thicket adjacent to the parkway. Seattle Times(Dec 14, 2016) n a dense growth of bushes Syn|Hypo|Hyper brush, brushwood, coppice, copse brake an area thickly overgrown usually with one kind of plant canebrakea dense growth of cane (especially giant cane) spinneya copse that shelters game underbrush, undergrowth, underwoodthe brush (small trees and bushes and ferns etc.) growing beneath taller trees in a wood or forest ground cover, groundcoversmall plants other than saplings growing on a forest floor botany, flora, vegetation all the plant life in a particular region or period |
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