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noun
- 1. a dense group of bushes or trees: "a horned owl perfectly camouflaged in a dense thicket"
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THICKET definition: 1. an area of trees and bushes growing closely together 2. an area of trees and bushes growing…. Learn more.
n. 1. A dense growth of shrubs or underbrush; a copse. 2. Something suggestive of a dense growth of plants, as in impenetrability or thickness: "the thicket of unreality which stands between us and the facts of life" (Daniel J. Boorstin). [Old English thiccet, from thicce, thick; see thick.]
If you refer to a thicket of ideas or events, you mean that there a lot of them together, and often that they are confusing or difficult to identify. The novel is a thicket of literary references. To try to open a foreign-owned business is to enter a thicket of regulations.
Thicket definition: a thick or dense growth of shrubs, bushes, or small trees; a thick coppice.. See examples of THICKET used in a sentence.
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. Definitions of thicket. noun. a dense growth of bushes. synonyms: brush, brushwood, coppice, copse. see more. botany, flora, vegetation.
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Definition of thicket noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
