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
  • In the Key of Ursa Minor Matthew Tierney Three fake plastic bushes per sill in the mall promenade.
    Max Ufberg, hazlitt.net, 10 Jan. 2025
  • They will be buried together in their garden at home, among the kumquat tree and blueberry bushes, the white azaleas and roses, and the pollinator plants.
    Emily Cochrane, New York Times, 9 Jan. 2025
Definition of bush
Noun
  • Newsom has faced criticism for cutting the state's funding for wildfire and forest resilience by $101 million last year, while overall increasing the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection's wildfire protection budget.
    Michael Gfoeller And David H. Rundell, Newsweek, 15 Jan. 2025
  • Programs include a trivia night, a meet and greet with the two mascots and forest management hikes.
    Annie Alleman, Chicago Tribune, 15 Jan. 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
  • Traveling there is like flooring it through a thicket of life-threatening risks: Jets, drones and artillery can quickly annihilate an armored vehicle.
    Gaëlle Girbes, New York Times, 28 Dec. 2024
  • Any new leadership will inherit not just a broken state but also a thicket of challenges that defy simple solutions.
    Karam Shaar, Foreign Affairs, 20 Dec. 2024
Definition of thicket
Noun
  • The castaway lifted his eyes slightly, barely making out the thick copse of palm trees dotting the horizon.
    Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 7 Sep. 2023
  • In fall, the Valley glows yellow and gold thanks to copses of aspen and cottonwood trees.
    Elizabeth Brownfield, Forbes, 28 Nov. 2023
Definition of copse
Noun
  • The forecast called for an all-out windstorm by midday over chaparral that hadn’t seen rain for eight months.
    Jack Flemming, Los Angeles Times, 8 Jan. 2025
  • But in this part of the semi-arid chaparral called Los Angeles, fire season can now be any time.
    Zoë Schlanger, The Atlantic, 8 Jan. 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
  • Woodlots offered concealment from surveillance and attack, and the dirt surrounding this grove was scuffed by foot trails, suggesting Russian arrivals by night.
    C.J. Chivers Robert Fass Krish Seenivasan Steven Szczesniak, New York Times, 31 Dec. 2024
  • California’s agricultural heartlands are often eclipsed by their snazzier coastal counterparts, but pause to consider a trip to the Central Valley, home to some of America’s finest farmland—and in particular, almond groves.
    Mark Ellwood, AFAR Media, 23 Dec. 2024
Definition of grove
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