thicket
noun/ˈθɪkɪt/
/ˈθɪkɪt/
- a group of bushes or small trees growing closely together
- a dense thicket of bamboo
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- a large number of things that are not easy to understand or separate
- He spent the morning trying to work his way through a thicket of statistics.
Word OriginOld English thiccet (from thick and -et).
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