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from The Century Dictionary.

  • Abounding in thickets; covered with thick bushes or trees.

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Examples

  • Quail whistled to their young from the thicketed hillside behind the house. there was a gentle cooing of pigeons, and from the green depths of the big canon arose the sobbing wood note of

    Chapter XXVII 2010

  • Inside it was a thicketed dirt bank that was so obviously suitable for goblin tunneling that no wolf dared go near it.

    Here There Are Monsters 2010

  • Rough-thicketed were the banks and steep; the stream

    Idylls of the King 2004

  • In the thicketed highlands found on the hills above the Mismaloya beach lies the carcass from Schwartzenegger's film, The Predator.

    The mystical and magical pleasures of Puerto Vallarta 2001

  • In the thicketed highlands found on the hills above the Mismaloya beach lies the carcass from Schwartzenegger's film, The Predator.

    The mystical and magical pleasures of Puerto Vallarta 2001

  • Inman watched her touch Monroe's arm and say something to him, and they went to the cabriolet and climbed in and wheeled off, fading down the lane between fencerows thicketed with blossoming blackberry canes.

    Cold Mountain Frazier, Charles, 1950- Cold Mountain 2003

  • Inman watched her touch Monroe's arm and say something to him, and they went to the cabriolet and climbed in and wheeled off, fading down the lane between fencerows thicketed with blossoming blackberry canes.

    Cold Mountain Frazier, Charles, 1950- Cold Mountain 1997

  • Inside it was a thicketed dirt bank that was so obviously suitable for goblin tunneling that no wolf dared go near it.

    Unicorn Point Anthony, Piers 1989

  • A close-set, thicketed place, with plenty of bushes for cover, but not more than fifty paces clear view in any direction.

    A Morbid Taste For Bones Peters, Ellis, 1913-1995 1977

  • Sher Afzul had said we must go boar-hunting, and we had a good hour's sport in the thicketed gullies of the Mogala valley, where the wild pigs bred.

    Flashman Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1969

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