| 释义 |
Definition of thicket in English: thicketnoun ˈθɪkɪtˈθɪkɪt A dense group of bushes or trees. 灌木丛；树丛 a horned owl perfectly camouflaged in a dense thicket Example sentencesExamples - Do you enjoy wading through dense thickets of symbolism?
- At points the towpath is bordered by mature trees and thickets of elder and hawthorn, home to many different species of birds.
- A winding road slopes downhill through a thicket of trees before looping once around a tiny manmade lake.
- The track was soft and mossy, and it led though ferns and brackens, thickets of brambles and groves of tall Himalayan cedar trees.
- She had a small house between the villages, on a small hill near a thicket of oak trees.
- The dense thicket of rules and exceptions will drive away, or drive mad, almost anyone else.
- Invasive species often form dense stands or thickets that crowd out native vegetation.
- Growing in dense thickets, it becomes vulnerable over time to attacks from insects and disease.
- Up to eight warblers may arrive in dense gorse thickets, particularly on clear, cold nights.
- It is a very attractive park of rolling hills, open grassy valleys, interspersed with thickets, woodlands and rich wetlands.
- Barely 20 feet below us was a dense thicket of bushes, and there the car lay on its side, undamaged.
- The owl soared downwards into the thicket of pine trees where its nest was.
- They rode down a dirt path in the forest amid the thickets of bushes and trees.
- It occurs along coastal beaches of the West Indies and Central America, where its dense thickets are often cultivated to provide a windbreak.
- This study emerged from, and was carried out within, a dense thicket of contradictions.
- She ran faster, and tried to lose them by running through thickets and in between trees.
- Song sparrows live in a variety of dense, brushy thickets.
- Regan walked through a thicket of trees and pushed a few branches away.
- The birds love the dense thickets and scrub and clumps of bushes like blackthorn that grow in the older sites of the park.
- It was basically underbrush - small bushes, thickets, plants with long branches and thorns.
- Dense thickets of shrubs can have a strong impact on vegetation development, often reducing tree invasion for decades.
Synonyms copse, coppice, dense growth, grove, brake, covert, tangle, clump wood British spinney archaic hurst
OriginOld English thiccet (see thick, -et1). Rhymescricket, midwicket, picket, picquet, piquet, pricket, snicket, ticket, wicket Definition of thicket in US English: thicketnounˈθɪkɪtˈTHikit A dense group of bushes or trees. 灌木丛；树丛 a horned owl perfectly camouflaged in a dense thicket Example sentencesExamples - Growing in dense thickets, it becomes vulnerable over time to attacks from insects and disease.
- At points the towpath is bordered by mature trees and thickets of elder and hawthorn, home to many different species of birds.
- A winding road slopes downhill through a thicket of trees before looping once around a tiny manmade lake.
- She had a small house between the villages, on a small hill near a thicket of oak trees.
- Barely 20 feet below us was a dense thicket of bushes, and there the car lay on its side, undamaged.
- Invasive species often form dense stands or thickets that crowd out native vegetation.
- The owl soared downwards into the thicket of pine trees where its nest was.
- The birds love the dense thickets and scrub and clumps of bushes like blackthorn that grow in the older sites of the park.
- It is a very attractive park of rolling hills, open grassy valleys, interspersed with thickets, woodlands and rich wetlands.
- It was basically underbrush - small bushes, thickets, plants with long branches and thorns.
- The track was soft and mossy, and it led though ferns and brackens, thickets of brambles and groves of tall Himalayan cedar trees.
- Song sparrows live in a variety of dense, brushy thickets.
- This study emerged from, and was carried out within, a dense thicket of contradictions.
- Regan walked through a thicket of trees and pushed a few branches away.
- The dense thicket of rules and exceptions will drive away, or drive mad, almost anyone else.
- She ran faster, and tried to lose them by running through thickets and in between trees.
- They rode down a dirt path in the forest amid the thickets of bushes and trees.
- It occurs along coastal beaches of the West Indies and Central America, where its dense thickets are often cultivated to provide a windbreak.
- Dense thickets of shrubs can have a strong impact on vegetation development, often reducing tree invasion for decades.
- Do you enjoy wading through dense thickets of symbolism?
- Up to eight warblers may arrive in dense gorse thickets, particularly on clear, cold nights.
Synonyms copse, coppice, dense growth, grove, brake, covert, tangle, clump
OriginOld English thiccet (see thick, -et). |