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Synonyms for thicket
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : thik-it |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈθɪk ɪt |
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Définition of thicket
Origin :- late Old English þiccet, from þicce (see thick) + denominative suffix -et.
- noun dense growth of small trees or bushes
- noun plant
- We camped in a thicket, without water, on a small patch of feed.
- Extract from : « Explorations in Australia » by John Forrest
- It rose with terrible distinctness from the thicket close before us.
- Extract from : « In the Valley » by Harold Frederic
- They leaped from their horses and plunged straightway into the thicket after Robin.
- Extract from : « The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood » by Howard Pyle
- The thicket, before so formidable, amounted to nothing at all.
- Extract from : « The Forest » by Stewart Edward White
- There was a thicket of holly and underwood, as dense as a jungle, close about the door.
- Extract from : « The Room in the Dragon Volant » by J. Sheridan LeFanu
- He was passing a thicket that skirted the road, when a cautious "Hist!"
- Extract from : « Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 364, February 1846 » by Various
- In vain he explored every thicket, and surveyed all the paths of the forest.
- Extract from : « Imogen » by William Godwin
- Why should they not dash across that field and vanish in the thicket?
- Extract from : « The Downfall » by Emile Zola
- It was evident that the Prussians had no inclination to beat up the thicket.
- Extract from : « The Downfall » by Emile Zola
- I have seen her running on all fours in a thicket near La Palud.'
- Extract from : « Abbe Mouret's Transgression » by Emile Zola
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