variants
also boskage
as in bush
a thick patch of shrubbery, small trees, or underbrush
the land was dotted with tangled boscage that slowed any passage through it
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Orange County Fire Authority firefighters saved a woman and man from the San Juan Creek in San Juan Capistrano, California after receiving reports at 1:42 a.m. that they were trapped in the water, holding onto trees and bushes, the fire department shared in a social media statement.—
Greta Cross, USA TODAY, 14 Feb. 2025
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These bushes stay green year-round despite getting almost no summer rainfall.—
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Any debt brake reform, including for defense spending, would rely on support from one of the fringe parties.—
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The brakes worked handily during mashes and the steering is tight-tight without being too sensitive.—
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Prologue was first announced in 2019 with a cryptic trailer that showed a first-person view of a storm crashing through a dark forest.—
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The Piney Woods region at the corner of East Texas offers outdoor adventures like hiking in Davy Crockett National Forest, taking a vintage steam train through the forest and kayaking along the scenic Neches River.—
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Why isn’t there space for an organic unfurling, a messy tangle of threads that overlap and deviate?—
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Figuring out why tangles are so tricky could help scientists predict when people’s snap judgments about a physical situation are likely to be wrong, leading to unsafe reactions.—
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Stepping through the thicket is like being transported to another world — light shafts penetrate the canopy as the vegetation encloses you into beautiful woodland.—
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As Jacob prowls through the dense thickets of Queen Elizabeth National Park, his every step—or leap—serves as a reminder of nature’s tenacity and the urgent need to preserve it.—
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In Los Angeles, some experts say there may be cases where clearing patches of chaparral around neighborhoods of houses is warranted.—
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After burning, the chaparral is slow to recover, whereas invasive grasses are quick to move in.—
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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.—
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Another strategy, called short rotation coppice, involves planting fast-growing trees such as willows and poplars in extremely dense rows.—
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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.—
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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.—
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“Boscage.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/boscage. Accessed 27 Feb. 2025.
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