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- noun southern US A
gallery forest foundgrowing along ariver bank or on theflood plain of awatercourse .
Etymologies
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Examples
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For those of you not from the southwest, bosque is Spanish for wood or woodland.
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Our slow drive around the bosque is also a movable feast, a finger-food potluck on wheels.
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They are being replaced by non-native vegetation such as Russian olive and salt cedar tamarix, which are unsuitable for the wildlife that call the bosque home.
Adios, Amigos (2) Walter Jon Williams 2007
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The bosque the woods along the banks of the Rio Grande are called bosque in these parts was magnificent in its fall colors.
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They are being replaced by non-native vegetation such as Russian olive and salt cedar tamarix, which are unsuitable for the wildlife that call the bosque home.
Archive 2007-02-01 Walter Jon Williams 2007
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My way to work took last year took me in the oposite direction of the mountains, towards the west mesa, straight over the river and through the bosque (cottonwood forests) The bosque is a treasure of the southwest, and my oohs and ahhs came from watching the subtle changes take place there as the seasons changed as I drove across it twice a day.
madrigle Diary Entry madrigle 2006
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I live near a bosque with acres filled with tree-lined, criss-crossed sidewalks with playgrounds and sidewalk vendors about two blocks down from me so I've never felt a lack of those leafy neighborhoods, though I have to pass in front of Plaza Morelos to get to it.
Pedestrian Friendly? 2009
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By Una casa burbuja en el bosque, Decoración 2.0 on October 5, 2009 at 8: 02 am
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I live near a bosque with acres filled with tree-lined, criss-crossed sidewalks with playgrounds and sidewalk vendors about two blocks down from me so I've never felt a lack of those leafy neighborhoods, though I have to pass in front of Plaza Morelos to get to it.
Pedestrian Friendly? 2009
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I live near a bosque with acres filled with tree-lined, criss-crossed sidewalks with playgrounds and sidewalk vendors about two blocks down from me so I've never felt a lack of those leafy neighborhoods, though I have to pass in front of Plaza Morelos to get to it.
Pedestrian Friendly? 2009
treeseed commented on the word bosque
"Bosque is the name for areas of gallery forest found along the flood plains of stream and river banks in the southwestern United States. It derives its name from the Spanish word for woodlands."__Wikipedia
July 24, 2009
hernesheir commented on the word bosque
The woody forest galleries I've observed along rivers in the region are somewhat sparse, in the areas I've traipsed around in.... Willow brakes, ubiquitous exotic tamarisk, and the lovely and occasional Fremont Cottonwood.... what else is to be seen there - from one naturalist to another, so to speak? ....
July 24, 2009