variants
also boskage
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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For Virginian Heather Bien, that meant capturing her vacation rental’s bountiful rose bushes and its perch above the river below.Nicole Letts, Southern Living, 1 Nov. 2024
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In her work at the cemetery, which has become overgrown with thorn bushes and weeds, Hanson has reportedly uncovered approximately 100 gravesites.Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 1 Nov. 2024
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The driver slammed on the brakes and cursed her out.Emily Alpert Reyes, Los Angeles Times, 2 Nov. 2024
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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
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They also can be purchased through select vendors in the mountains that have partnered with the forests.John Meyer, The Denver Post, 9 Nov. 2024
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Loss of forest globally is a critical threat to biodiversity and climate change.Grant Stringer, The Mercury News, 9 Nov. 2024
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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
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There’s also a big tangle of conflicting feelings and emotional contexts at play here.Ben Rosenstock, Vulture, 16 Oct. 2024
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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
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But the group doesn’t need to wade into that thicket.Bill Adair, TIME, 15 Oct. 2024
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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“Boscage.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/boscage. Accessed 17 Nov. 2024.
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