thicket
A dense, but generally small, growth of shrubs, bushes or small treesA dense, but generally small, growth of shrubs, bushes or small trees; a copse.
» Sami hid in a dense thicket.
Meaning
3 sensesA dense, but generally small, growth of shrubs, bushes or small trees; a copse.
Dickicht, Gebüsch, Gestrüpp
ча́щаčášča, за́рослиzárosli, гу́щаgúšča
ха́щіxášči, ха́щаxášča, гуща́винаhuščávyna
a dense growth of bushes
(figuratively)A dense aggregation of other things, concrete or abstract.
He had to complete a thicket of paperwork before he was allowed to join the company.
Gestrüpp, Dickicht, Dschungel
(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.
Examples
9 sentencesSami hid in a dense thicket.
Ziri stepped out of a thicket.
The tiger is hiding in a bamboo thicket.
ruТигр прячется в зарослях бамбука.
deDer Tiger versteckt sich im Bambusdickicht.
We'll need to push our way through this thicket.
deWir werden uns einen Weg durch dieses Dickicht bahnen müssen.
Pandas live in bamboo thickets.
ruПанды живут в бамбуковых зарослях.
dePandabären leben in Bambushainen.
Translations
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Origin
Inherited from Middle English *thikket, from Old English þiccet, from þicce (“thick”) + OlInherited from Middle English *thikket, from Old English þiccet, from þicce (“thick”) + Old English nominal suffix -et. Compare similar German Dickicht (“thicket”), which is first attested in the 17th century, however.
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