thicket

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A dense, but generally small, growth of shrubs, bushes or small trees; a copse.
    — Suddenly from a lumpy tussock of old grass some twenty yards in front of them, with black-tipped ears erect and long hinder limbs throwing it forward, started a hare. It bolted for a thicket of alders.
  2. A dense aggregation of other things, concrete or abstract. figuratively
    — He had to complete a thicket of paperwork before he was allowed to join the company.
  3. The collection of many small linked files created when a document is saved in HTML format by some word processors and web site creation software. figuratively

词形变化

thickets plural

词汇关系

衍生词
patent thicket thicketbird thicketed thicketful thicketization thicket tinamou thickety
相关词
brush copse grove scrub scrubland shaw shrubland

词源

Inherited from Middle English *thikket, from Old English þiccet, from þicce (“thick”) + Old English nominal suffix -et. Compare similar German Dickicht (“thicket”), which is first attested in the 17th century, however.
Compare typologically Bulgarian гъстак (gǎstak), Macedonian густеж (gustež), Czech houští, Polish gęstwina (< *gǫstъ); Latin dūmus (akin to Latin dense).
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