THICKET

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does thicket mean? 

• THICKET (noun)
  The noun THICKET has 1 sense:

1. a dense growth of bushes

  Familiarity information: THICKET used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• THICKET (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A dense growth of bushes

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

brush; brushwood; coppice; copse; thicket

Hypernyms ("thicket" is a kind of...):

botany; flora; vegetation (all the plant life in a particular region or period)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "thicket"):

brake (an area thickly overgrown usually with one kind of plant)

canebrake (a dense growth of cane (especially giant cane))

spinney (a copse that shelters game)

underbrush; undergrowth; underwood (the brush (small trees and bushes and ferns etc.) growing beneath taller trees in a wood or forest)

 Context examples 

We were now at the margin of the thicket.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

They watched him scramble backward into the thicket, then proceeded on their way.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

Then he crawled into the heart of a dense thicket and waited.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

I awoke to find myself on my back upon the grass in our lair within the thicket.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I leapt over the tree because the huntsmen are shooting down there in the thicket.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

He followed the new scent into a thicket and found Nig.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

Long ere Alleyne was out of sound of the Beaulieu bells he was striding sturdily along, swinging his staff and whistling as merrily as the birds in the thicket.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

On the right side was a small wooden thicket, which led into a narrow path between two neat hedges stretching from the road to the kitchen door, and forming the tradesmen’s entrance.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Their shape was very singular and deformed, which a little discomposed me, so that I lay down behind a thicket to observe them better.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Traddles reasonably supposed that this would settle the business; but I, only feeling that here indeed were a few tall trees to be hewn down, immediately resolved to work my way on to Dora through this thicket, axe in hand.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)