boscage

noun

ˈbä-skij How to pronounce boscage (audio)
variants also boskage
Definition of boscagenext
as in bush
a thick patch of shrubbery, small trees, or underbrush the land was dotted with tangled boscage that slowed any passage through it

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  1. bush
  2. brake
  3. forest
  4. tangle
  5. thicket
  6. chaparral
  7. coppice
  8. brushwood
Noun
  • That effect was on display on Viejas Mountain, where winds whipped the peak’s western flank Tuesday morning, rattling bushes near the 4,187-foot summit.
    Karen Kucher, The Mercury News, 11 Dec. 2024
  • In another assassination attempt in September, a gunman waited for hours for Trump to appear at his golf course in Florida, but a Secret Service agent thwarted the attack by spotting the firearm poking through some bushes.
    Rebecca Santana, Los Angeles Times, 10 Dec. 2024
Definition of bush
Noun
  • This is your sign from the universe to do everything possible to hit the brakes on your spending and truly assess where all your cash is going.
    Kyle Thomas, People.com, 8 Dec. 2024
  • Previous Stellantis Recalls In November, Stellantis recalled approximately 207,000 Jeep and Dodge SUVs in the United States to address a software issue that could deactivate the anti-lock brakes and electronic stability control systems.
    Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 6 Dec. 2024
Definition of brake
Noun
  • The team is currently modeling at the level of the woodland stand, a unit of forest made up of a relatively uniform group of trees, to assess the optimal distance between trees.
    Alexa Phillips, WIRED, 16 Dec. 2024
  • Sitting in ancient Cumbria—the Lake District is a mighty UNESCO World Heritage Site drawing over 18 million visitors each year, home to the largest national park in England, covering over 880 square miles of terrain with towering mountains, serene lakes, and lush forests.
    Lewis Nunn, Forbes, 16 Dec. 2024
Definition of forest
Noun
  • His proof only guaranteed, for instance, that the circle could be found in his sponge — not that all homeomorphic knots could be, their loops and tangles still intact.
    Quanta Magazine, Quanta Magazine, 26 Nov. 2024
  • In about 30 minutes the dish is ready, an encouraging tangle of tasty equilibrium.
    Scott Hocker, theweek, 26 Nov. 2024
Definition of tangle
Noun
  • The best part of the farm itself was a dirt track that led from the back of the house to the edge of the property to a creek that ran swiftly through a dense thicket of trees.
    Lizz Schumer, People.com, 26 Nov. 2024
  • Gradually forests and bogs give way to more salt-tolerant thickets.
    Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 31 Oct. 2024
Definition of thicket
Noun
  • Here's what to do if that happens, or in any scary wildlife encounter Black bears are the only species of bear found in Arizona, and they can be found in forests, chaparral and desert riparian areas.
    John Leos, The Arizona Republic, 2 Nov. 2024
  • West Coast/California California’s coastal sage scrub and mixed chaparral were a huge source of inspiration for us and can be found in different combinations from southern to northern California.
    Kristin Guy, Sunset Magazine, 24 Oct. 2024
Definition of chaparral
Noun
  • The two most straightforward of the trials will involve large-scale planting of trees and bioenergy crops, including Miscanthus grasses and coppice willow, reports Robert Lea for AZoCleanTech.
    Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 May 2021
  • Another strategy, called short rotation coppice, involves planting fast-growing trees such as willows and poplars in extremely dense rows.
    Eric Toensmeier, Scientific American, 1 Aug. 2020
Definition of coppice
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  • During one expedition to what was once London, a young scientist, out gathering brushwood, unearths a small vacuum flask, inside which is a handwritten account of life in a small village called Beadle during the days leading up to the lunar catastrophe.
    Michael Dirda, Washington Post, 2 Feb. 2023
  • Bare dunes were planted with ‘brushwood and windbreaks, perpendicular to wind direction’ so that the dunes do not interfere with the canal system and irrigated farmlands.
    Azera Parveen Rahman, Quartz, 27 Oct. 2022
Definition of brushwood
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