THICKET

Thicket

A thicket is a very dense stand of trees or tall shrubs, often dominated by only one or a few species, to the exclusion of all others. They may be formed by species that shed large amounts of highly viable seeds that are able to germinate in the shelter of the maternal plants.

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thicket

Noun

  1. A dense, but generally small, growth of shrubs, bushes or small trees; a copse.
  2. A dense aggregation of other things, concrete or abstract.
  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.


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