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Definition of thicket noun from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

thicket

noun
 
/ˈθɪkɪt/
 
/ˈθɪkɪt/
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  1. a group of bushes or small trees growing closely together
    • a dense thicket of bamboo
  2. 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.
  3. Word OriginOld English thiccet (from thick and -et).
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