bosk

noun

ˈbäsk How to pronounce bosk (audio)
variants also bosque
Definition of bosknext
as in bush
a thick patch of shrubbery, small trees, or underbrush the thorny branches of the mesquite bosk provide quail and other desert birds with a safe haven from predators

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for bosk
  1. bush
  2. forest
  3. brushwood
  4. thicket
  5. copse
  6. chaparral
  7. coppice
  8. grove
Noun
  • The clothes, along with Debbie’s shoes, had been tied to rocks and bushes right below the bridge.
    Jessica Garrison, Los Angeles Times, 18 Dec. 2024
  • They’re configured in a grid pattern that ensures the bulbs are evenly distributed throughout bushes, balcony railings, or windows.
    Maggie Horton, People.com, 13 Dec. 2024
Definition of bush
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
  • 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
Noun
  • This native shrub ranges from five to 15 feet high and will slowly form thickets if allowed.
    Erica Browne Grivas, Better Homes & Gardens, 3 Dec. 2024
  • Across the garden, Corley, in headphones, held a professional recording device up to another thicket of reeds.
    Oren Peleg, The New Yorker, 26 Aug. 2024
Definition of thicket
Noun
  • The castaway lifted his eyes slightly, barely making out the thick copse of palm trees dotting the horizon.
    Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 7 Sep. 2023
  • In fall, the Valley glows yellow and gold thanks to copses of aspen and cottonwood trees.
    Elizabeth Brownfield, Forbes, 28 Nov. 2023
Definition of copse
Noun
  • During these quieter times, the native chaparral and vegetation would slowly recover over the course of years.
    Noah Haggerty, Los Angeles Times, 14 Dec. 2024
  • 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
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
  • In a grove of Norway spruce not far from the cabin, a ruffed grouse exploded from a branch directly overhead and gave everyone a start.
    Erwin A. Bauer, Outdoor Life, 25 Dec. 2024
  • California’s jointly managed Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks are famous for their groves of giant Sequoia trees, a species that only grows on the western slope of the Sierra Nevada mountains.
    Graham Averill, Outside Online, 22 Dec. 2024
Definition of grove
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