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
  • Midtown Manhattan appears in vivid detail, with the rest of the country—Chicago, Kansas City, Los Angeles—a hazy expanse of rocks, bushes, and fields on the other side of the Hudson River.
    Frederick Hess, Forbes, 1 Nov. 2024
  • Spread gauze on bushes to mimic cobwebs with creepy DIY spiders.
    Claire Hoppe Norgaard, Better Homes & Gardens, 12 Oct. 2024
Definition of bush
Noun
  • The driver slammed on the brakes and cursed her out.
    Emily Alpert Reyes, Los Angeles Times, 2 Nov. 2024
  • Ducati also linked the front brake to the rear brake lever for better control during panic braking, and the safety systems will vary the amount of front braking according to load, ride mode and other factors.
    William Roberson, Forbes, 31 Oct. 2024
Definition of brake
Noun
  • Here's what to know A dry fall fuels wildfires from East Coast to west and puts Arizona forests on watch Navajo families don't trust their tap water, study says, and overpay for outside supplies What is a La Niña winter like?
    Hayleigh Evans, The Arizona Republic, 22 Nov. 2024
  • But the program alone is not enough to restore the forest, said Brian Reatini, a geneticist with the U.S. Forest Service.
    Jonathan Vigliotti, CBS News, 20 Nov. 2024
Definition of forest
Noun
  • Six weeks later, what began as a missing persons case became a murder mystery, as Karen's body was found hidden beneath a tangle of vines by a caretaker near Bledsoe Cemetery in Dyer County.
    Gemma Schneider, ABC News, 1 Nov. 2024
  • There’s also a big tangle of conflicting feelings and emotional contexts at play here.
    Ben Rosenstock, Vulture, 16 Oct. 2024
Definition of tangle
Noun
  • Eisenberg is a warm, compassionate guide through a thicket of violence, abrupt endings, and youthful longings, and her book is an intelligent corrective to common true-crime tropes.
    Sarah Weinman, The Atlantic, 31 Oct. 2024
  • Hedden and a colleague approached the Marshes’ property through the woods and discovered a human skull in a thicket.
    Sarah Larson, The New Yorker, 28 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
Noun
  • 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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