thicket

[thik-it] /ˈθɪk ɪt/

noun

a thick or dense growth of shrubs, bushes, or small trees; a thick coppice.

Origin

before 1000; Old English thiccet (not recorded in ME), equivalent to thicce thick + -et noun suffix

Related forms

thicketed, thickety, adjective

Examples from the web for thicket

You've seen the game of pachinko-a small metal ball dropped into a thicket of horizontal pegs rattles its way to the bottom.
Spreads by underground runners to form a thicket add to my plant list.
We head for a low forest, only to find it's a tangled thicket of bushes and bamboo.
It was half-covered in a thicket of overgrown trees.
Eventually, spruce trees begin to grow under the alder thicket.
In a thicket of words lies plausible deniability when the time for horror's accounting arrives.
Information about eligibility is hidden behind a thicket of complicated paperwork.
In wetter areas, the thicket is tall and interwoven and in some places almost impenetrable.
The botanists forged through a thicket and crossed a rocky ravine bed.
The white bear lumbers into a thicket and disappears.

British Dictionary definitions for thicket

thicket

/ˈθɪkɪt/

noun

a dense growth of small trees, shrubs, and similar plants

Word Origin

Old English thiccet; see thick

Word Origin and History for thicket

late Old English þiccet, from þicce (see thick) + denominative suffix -et.

thicket in Technology

jargon
Multiple files output from some operation.
The term has been heard in use at Microsoft to describe the set of files output when Microsoft Word does "Save As a Web Page" or "Save as HTML". The process can result in a main XML or HTML file, a graphic file for each image in the original, a CSS file, etc.
This can be an issue as XML can be used as the default format in Office 2000, and document management systems can't yet cope with the relationship between the files in a thicket when checking in and out.
(2001-09-01)

Encyclopedia Article for thicket

coppice

a dense grove of small trees or shrubs that have grown from suckers or sprouts rather than from seed. A coppice usually results from human woodcutting activity and may be maintained by continually cutting new growth as it reaches usable size

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