Thicket vs Woods - What's the difference?
thicket | woods |
A dense, but generally small, growth of shrubs, bushes or small trees; a copse.
(figuratively) A dense aggregation of other things, concrete or abstract.
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(uncountable) A dense collection of trees covering a relatively small area; smaller than a forest.
(Military) For chemical behavior purposes, trees in full leaf (coniferous or medium-dense deciduous forests).
As nouns the difference between thicket and woods
is that thicket is a dense, but generally small, growth of shrubs, bushes or small trees; a copse while woods is plural of lang=en.As a verb woods is
third-person singular of wood.As a proper noun Woods is
an English topographic surname, variant of Wood.thicket
English
Noun
(en noun)Where Dr Pangloss meets Machiavelli, passage=Hidden behind thickets of acronyms and gorse bushes of detail, a new great game is under way across the globe. Some call it geoeconomics, but it's geopolitics too. The current power play consists of an extraordinary range of countries simultaneously sitting down to negotiate big free trade and investment agreements.}}
