thicket

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n. 丛林, 草丛

发音

其它 /ˈθɪkɪt/
US /ˈθɪkɪt/

词形变化

thickets 复数 thickets

教材释义与例句

名词

灌木丛；丛林；错综复杂

释义与例句

n. C2
  1. 1.

    A dense, but generally small, growth of shrubs, bushes or small trees; a copse.

    丛林

    灌木丛

    树丛

  2. 2.

    A dense aggregation of other things, concrete or abstract.

    比喻

    He had to complete a thicket of paperwork before he was allowed to join the company.

  3. 3.

    The collection of many small linked files created when a document is saved in HTML format by some word processors and web site creation software.

    比喻 计算机 工程 数学

词汇关系

名词

同义词 4

brush brushwood coppice copse

上位词 3

flora vegetation botany

下位词 6

brake underwood undergrowth cane brake spinney underbrush

相关短语

thicket tinamou thicket tinamous patent thicket Big Thicket

词源

From Middle English *thikket, from Old English þiccet, from þicce (“thick”) + Old English nominal suffix -et. Compare similar German Dickicht (“thicket”), which is first attested in the 17th century, however. Compare typologically Bulgarian гъстак (gǎstak), Macedonian густеж (gustež), Czech houští, Polish gęstwina (< Proto-Slavic *gǫstъ); Latin dūmus (akin to dense).

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