THICKET

brush, brushwood, coppice, copse, thicket

(noun) a dense growth of bushes

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

thicket (plural thickets)

A dense, but generally small, growth of shrubs, bushes or small trees; a copse.

(figuratively) A dense aggregation of other things, concrete or abstract.

(computing, 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.

Anagrams

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Source: Wiktionary


Thick"et, n. Etym: [AS. . See Thick, a.]

Definition: A wood or a collection of trees, shrubs, etc., closely set; as, a ram caught in a thicket. Gen. xxii. 13.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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21 April 2025

ENCYCLOPEDIA

(noun) a reference work (often in several volumes) containing articles on various topics (often arranged in alphabetical order) dealing with the entire range of human knowledge or with some particular specialty


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Coffee has initially been a food – chewed, not sipped. Early African tribes consume coffee by grinding the berries together, adding some animal fat, and rolling the treats into tiny edible energy balls.

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