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
  • Midtown Manhattan appears in vivid detail, with the rest of the country—Chicago, Kansas City, Los Angeles—a hazy expanse of rocks, bushes, and fields on the other side of the Hudson River.
    Frederick Hess, Forbes, 1 Nov. 2024
  • Spread gauze on bushes to mimic cobwebs with creepy DIY spiders.
    Claire Hoppe Norgaard, Better Homes & Gardens, 12 Oct. 2024
Definition of bush
Noun
  • The brakes have also been upgraded with new racing-spec brakes.
    Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 22 Nov. 2024
  • Should the economy run hot and inflation flare up again, Powell and his colleagues could decide to tap the brakes on their efforts to lower interest rates.
    Jeff Cox, CNBC, 21 Nov. 2024
Definition of brake
Noun
  • Here's what to know A dry fall fuels wildfires from East Coast to west and puts Arizona forests on watch Navajo families don't trust their tap water, study says, and overpay for outside supplies What is a La Niña winter like?
    Hayleigh Evans, The Arizona Republic, 22 Nov. 2024
  • But the program alone is not enough to restore the forest, said Brian Reatini, a geneticist with the U.S. Forest Service.
    Jonathan Vigliotti, CBS News, 20 Nov. 2024
Definition of forest
Noun
  • The latest tangle between the parties occurred last night when Alex Soros—son of billionaire investor and entrepreneur George Soros—responded to an article about the popular vote count during the election.
    BYEleanor Pringle, Fortune, 20 Nov. 2024
  • Prior to the opening of the trail, the site of the northern headquarters of the 40,000-acre cattle ranch operation was little more than a few acres of nameless bullet-riddled stuff wrapped in a tangle of barbed wire.
    Mare Czinar, The Arizona Republic, 14 Nov. 2024
Definition of tangle
Noun
  • Gradually forests and bogs give way to more salt-tolerant thickets.
    Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 31 Oct. 2024
  • The harrowing true story of the lions, which raided tents in the camp at night and dragged victims into the thicket, has inspired movies and books over the years — and copious research to understand what drove them to prey on humans.
    Ashley Strickland, CNN, 11 Oct. 2024
Definition of thicket
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
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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