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.
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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. — marafon
deDer Tiger versteckt sich im Bambusdickicht. — Pfirsichbaeumchen
We'll need to push our way through this thicket.
deWir werden uns einen Weg durch dieses Dickicht bahnen müssen. — Yorwba
Pandas live in bamboo thickets.
ruПанды живут в бамбуковых зарослях. — Ooneykcall
dePandabären leben in Bambushainen. — xtofu80
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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