thicket
Speech parts
1. thicket - Noun
2. thicket - Adjective
Meaning
A wood or a collection of trees, shrubs, etc., closely set; as, a ram caught in a thicket.
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Pale purple as the bloom om a ripe plum, veined with the gold of late flowering gorse, set with small slender birches,just turning yellow,with red-berried rowans and thicket of bracken, the heath lay steeped in sunshine.
Because we've become so ecologically minded now, they have developed a product called "Rapidly Dissolving Toilet Paper." Just how "rapidly" are we talking? 'Cause I don't want to have to play "Beat the Clock" in the thicket.
As we thrash on to a finish through the current thicket of flags and banners, we realize it is no finish at all, but a new inning. Secure in the rules, we know that, given three strikes, the truth will out.
You know what's a great metaphor for love? Sleeping beauty. Because you have to plow through this incredible thicket of thorns in order to get to beauty, and even then, when you get there, you still have to wake her up. - Tiny Cooper.
When riding on top of an elephant do not assume there is no dew in the thicket.
The horse chained to the feeding trough and the mare in the thicket.