[ US /ˈθɪkɪt/ ]
[ UK /θˈɪkɪt/ ]
NOUN
  1. a dense growth of bushes
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  • Here we find a good deal of open ground, with thickets of shrubby Artemisias and Gnaphaliums, like our southernwood and cudweed, but six or eight feet high; while Buttercups, Violets, Whortleberries, The Malay Archipelago, the land of the orang-utan and the bird of paradise; a narrative of travel, with studies of man and nature — Volume 1
  • They lived for some days on the excellent flesh of the maskalonge, on clams from the beach -- enormous clams of delicious flavor -- on a new fruit with a pinkish meat, which grew abundantly in the thickets and somewhat resembled breadfruit; on wild asparagus-sprouts, and on the few squirrels that Stern was able to "pot" with his revolver from the shelter of the leafy little camping-place they had arranged near the river. Darkness and Dawn
  • The dense thicket of rules and exceptions will drive away, or drive mad, almost anyone else.
  • The birds love the dense thickets and scrub and clumps of bushes like blackthorn that grow in the older sites of the park.
  • Among the nearly 200 species found here are thicket tinamou, brown pelican, osprey, king vulture, and laughing gull.
  • We kept driving, past cedar thickets and a pasture studded with blooming prickly pear cactus.
  • He followed a little farther, and now his tail was heard to '_tap, tap, tap_' the brush as he went through a dry thicket. Two Little Savages Being the adventures of two boys who lived as Indians and what they learned
  • exfoliated" surface sheets which here, too, gave it an inhuman, primeval look; in the higher sun the vast expanse looked, I suppose, more blindingly white; and nowhere did buildings or thickets seem to emerge. Over Prairie Trails
  • The island is home to troops of long-tailed macaques that live on the mangosteens, rambutans, jambus, mata kucings, and other fruits thriving among the groves of palm and dense thickets of casuarina and barrington trees.
  • With a sigh Aislinn turned and slowly entered the thicket herself, knowing he must settle the problem himself within his own mind. THE WOLF AND THE DOVE
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