词汇 | thicket |
释义 | thicket noun[ C ] uk /ˈθɪk.ɪt/ us /ˈθɪk.ɪt/ an area of trees and bushes growing closely together灌木丛;小树丛 Synonym copse Compare coppicenoun brushnoun graffoto8/iStock/Getty Images Plus/GettyImages Forestry afforestation agroforestry arborist brush carbon sink clearing cut down deforest lumberjack old growth ranger slash-and-burn the treeline tropical rainforest undercut understorey unforested woodcutter woodsy woody thicket | American Dictionarythicket noun[ C ] us/ˈθɪk·ɪt/ an area of trees and bushes growing closely together Examples of thicketthicket This problem is compounded by the presence, within the ranch, of patches of thicket harbouring untreated populations of tsetse. The editor is a skilful guide across difficult terrain, conducting her readers with enviable assurance through tangled clumps of textual thickets. In the thickets we randomly located three sites (each 45 x 30 m). This thicket of ideas is by turns intriguing and bewildering. They may feel that excessive factoring down obscures the wood behind a thicket of trees. Traps were distributed throughout the property in a range of representative habitats including open pasture (21 traps), tree thickets (6) and dense riparian jungle (5). The thicket decreases and the grassland increases from north-east to south-west within this area. Use of this kind of basis eliminates the algebraic thicket of products of solenoidal projection operators. In those cases, the preserved trees can form a growth nucleus leading to a thicket. Some surviving young trees prevail over the liana thickets, which decline so that the front may progress again. The depletion example is a thicket of details. Herds did not penetrate the dense thickets, range > 1 km beyond the ranch boundaries and/or > 4 km from their night kraals. For kraals unaffected by ranch boundaries and thickets, the grazing area was thus a circle of c. 50 km2 centred on the kraal. He loses sight of the forest in the thicket of the trees. Soon, for practical purposes, the fly will have thicket only. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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