Thicketed
/ˈθɪk.ɪtɪd/noun
Covered or filled with a dense growth of shrubs, trees, or other vegetation.
Did you know?Thicket comes from the same old Germanic root as English thick, so the word literally grew out of the idea of something packed so densely it becomes hard to move through.
Etymological Timeline
Proto-Indo-European
PIE
*teḱ-
“to be thick, to become dense”
Proto-Germanic
PGmc
*þekwaz / *þekkaz
“thick, dense”
Old English
OE
þicc
“thick, dense”
Middle English
ME
thikke
“thick; dense growth”
Late Middle English
English
thiket
“a dense cluster of shrubs or small trees”
Modern English
English
thicketed
“covered with or full of thickets”