coverts

noun

Definition of covertsnext
plural of covert
1
as in hideouts
a place where a person goes to hide or to avoid others set up a covert from which to watch wildlife without being detected

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2
as in bushes
a thick patch of shrubbery, small trees, or underbrush the rabbit rushed to the safety of the nearest covert

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  1. hideouts
  2. nests
  3. woods
  4. groves
Noun
  • Avichay Adraee, the IDF’s Arabic spokesperson, said the IDF found huge sums of money, food and water in Sinwar’s hideouts.
    Ivana Kottasová, CNN, 20 Oct. 2024
  • In many instances, swamps are the best of these hideouts.
    Josh Honeycutt, Outdoor Life, 9 Oct. 2024
Definition of hideouts
Noun
  • Five years later—and after four nests were successfully destroyed—officials have declared a rare victory against the murder hornets for having exterminated them from United States soil.
    Shi En Kim, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Dec. 2024
  • For live individuals that were captured, entomologists tied tiny trackers onto their bellies using dental floss to suss out the location of their nests.
    Shi En Kim, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Dec. 2024
Definition of nests
Noun
  • Built in 1944 and sitting on more than 2 acres, the home is surrounded by woods and perched on the top of a ridge.
    Joe Mutascio, The Indianapolis Star, 24 Dec. 2024
  • Not that this means that Baldwin is fully out of the legal woods.
    Dominic Patten, Deadline, 23 Dec. 2024
Definition of woods
Noun
  • Sequoia National Park, California 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
  • The Woodland Hills display winds through an eight-block cluster of streets that were home to walnut groves when the tradition began in the early 1950s.
    Francine Kiefer, The Christian Science Monitor, 19 Dec. 2024
Definition of groves
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