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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Recent Examples of Synonyms for boscage
  1. bush
  2. brake
  3. forest
  4. tangle
  5. thicket
  6. chaparral
  7. coppice
  8. brushwood
Noun
  • In the Key of Ursa Minor Matthew Tierney Three fake plastic bushes per sill in the mall promenade.
    Max Ufberg, hazlitt.net, 10 Jan. 2025
  • They will be buried together in their garden at home, among the kumquat tree and blueberry bushes, the white azaleas and roses, and the pollinator plants.
    Emily Cochrane, New York Times, 9 Jan. 2025
Definition of bush
Noun
  • Therapy can help kids put the brakes on the internal thoughts that lead to avoidance, plus teach them to communicate in healthier ways.
    Christin Perry, Parents, 6 Jan. 2025
  • This could tap the brakes on some aspects of the initiative while complicating American technology flow to India in areas, like AI, where his team is focused on enhancing U.S. competitive strengths, not co-innovation with foreign partners.
    Evan A. Feigenbaum, Forbes, 5 Jan. 2025
Definition of brake
Noun
  • There is a primordial quality to the woods that oscillates between cacophonous forest chatter and eerie silence in the space of a ridge or two.
    Laura Lancaster, Outdoor Life, 2 Jan. 2025
  • One of them, on July 12, is a daylong retreat in the forest in Topanga.
    Deborah Vankin, Los Angeles Times, 1 Jan. 2025
Definition of forest
Noun
  • Health insurance can involve a tangle of limitations due to provider networks, medical necessity rules and preauthorization requirements.
    Jay Feinman, The Conversation, 6 Jan. 2025
  • Struggling to keep track of a tangle of chargers while flying?
    Merrell Readman, Travel + Leisure, 4 Jan. 2025
Definition of tangle
Noun
  • Traveling there is like flooring it through a thicket of life-threatening risks: Jets, drones and artillery can quickly annihilate an armored vehicle.
    Gaëlle Girbes, New York Times, 28 Dec. 2024
  • Any new leadership will inherit not just a broken state but also a thicket of challenges that defy simple solutions.
    Karam Shaar, Foreign Affairs, 20 Dec. 2024
Definition of thicket
Noun
  • The forecast called for an all-out windstorm by midday over chaparral that hadn’t seen rain for eight months.
    Jack Flemming, Los Angeles Times, 8 Jan. 2025
  • But in this part of the semi-arid chaparral called Los Angeles, fire season can now be any time.
    Zoë Schlanger, The Atlantic, 8 Jan. 2025
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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