thicket

Meaning

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

bush

copse

grassy place

dense forest

tropical scrub

clump of bushes

fourre

dense grass

tree group

Frequency

Hyphenated as

thick‧et

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈθɪkɪt/

From Middle English *thikket, from Old English þiccet, from þicce (“thick”) + Old English nominal suffix -et. Compare similar German Dickicht (“thicket”), which is first attested in the 17th century, however.