bosk

noun

ˈbäsk How to pronounce bosk (audio)
variants also bosque
Definition of bosknext
as in bush
a thick patch of shrubbery, small trees, or underbrush the thorny branches of the mesquite bosk provide quail and other desert birds with a safe haven from predators

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for bosk
  1. bush
  2. forest
  3. brushwood
  4. thicket
  5. copse
  6. chaparral
  7. coppice
  8. grove
Noun
  • The animal could flee into a bush or pond and suffer a slow death.
    — Bill Kearney, Sun Sentinel, 21 Mar. 2025
  • The smooth surface of the amphibian enabled it to pass through meter-high bushes and sparse forest.
    — Mike Hanlon, New Atlas, 18 Mar. 2025
Definition of bush
Noun
  • In 2015, participating zoos began releasing the snails back into the forests of French Polynesia, marked with an animal-safe UV paint for tracking purposes, according to the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland.
    — Lauren Liebhaber, Miami Herald, 28 Mar. 2025
  • And Dorian, despite the visual inventiveness on display, does go a bit overboard and overlong at times, particularly in a late, extended scene that makes use of pre-recorded outdoor footage that allows more than one Snook to race through a forest.
    — Greg Evans, Deadline, 27 Mar. 2025
Definition of forest
Noun
  • 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.
    — Michael Dirda, Washington Post, 2 Feb. 2023
  • 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.
    — Azera Parveen Rahman, Quartz, 27 Oct. 2022
Definition of brushwood
Noun
  • In December 2023, Jonathan Majors walked through a dense thicket of news cameras and climbed into the back of a black Chevy Suburban pulling away from the criminal courthouse in lower Manhattan.
    — Rebecca Keegan, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Mar. 2025
  • Nor has the United States’ growing thicket of export controls and sanctions on Chinese firms and technology imports extracted significant concessions from Beijing.
    — Nicholas Mulder, Foreign Affairs, 6 Mar. 2025
Definition of thicket
Noun
  • The eyes in the sky gazed down on a copse of spindly trees in western Russia, hooking onto where North Korean forces were coalescing, a Ukrainian special operations forces commander, who is being identified only by his call sign, Green, told Newsweek.
    — Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 23 Mar. 2025
  • Below us were hayfields and stone barns, copses and creeks.
    — Nick Paumgarten, The New Yorker, 10 Feb. 2025
Definition of copse
Noun
  • The trail begins among desert species like barrel cactus and creosote, followed by chaparral, scrub oak and manzanita.
    — Dina Mishev Max Whittaker, New York Times, 25 Mar. 2025
  • Within a few hours, what started as a small fire in the chaparral quickly spread to homes built at the edge of the wildlands, many of them big, expensive homes with nice views that had been built by people who wanted to be close to nature or wanted some buffer from the chaos of urban life.
    — Jeff Goodell, Rolling Stone, 13 Feb. 2025
Definition of chaparral
Noun
  • 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.
    — Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 May 2021
  • Another strategy, called short rotation coppice, involves planting fast-growing trees such as willows and poplars in extremely dense rows.
    — Eric Toensmeier, Scientific American, 1 Aug. 2020
Definition of coppice
Noun
  • The resort is perched on cliffs overlooking turquoise waters, surrounded by lemon groves and ancient ruins, but beneath its pristine façade lie secrets of exploitation, hypocrisy and clashing egos.
    — Martine Paris, Forbes, 20 Mar. 2025
  • Iconic Architecture in Puglia Photo: Getty Images Often referred to as the heel of Italy’s boot, Puglia is a landscape of raw beauty and intense diversity (just look to its rocky coastlines, ancient olive groves, and quiet countrysides for proof).
    — Nicole Kliest, Vogue, 10 Mar. 2025
Definition of grove
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“Bosk.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bosk. Accessed 7 Apr. 2025.

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