different between hedgerow vs thicket

English

Etymology

From Middle English heggerowe, heggerewe, heggerawe, from Old English *he??r?w, *he??r?w (attested only as Old English he?er?we, he?er?we (“hedgerow”)), equivalent to hedge +? row.

Noun

hedgerow (plural hedgerows)

1. a row of closely planted bushes or trees forming a hedge
   • 1971, Led Zeppelin - Stairway to Heaven

     If theres a bustle in your hedgerow, don't be alarmed now, it's just a spring clean for the may queen

   • 1919, Ronald Firbank, Valmouth, Duckworth, hardback edition, page 91

     He had a suit of summer mufti, and a broad-brimmed blue beaver hat looped with leaves broken from the hedgerows in the lanes, and a Leander scarf tucked full of flowers: loosestrife, meadowrue, orchis, ragged-robin.

Translations

English

Etymology

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.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???k?t/
• Rhymes: -?k?t
• Hyphenation: thick?et

Noun

thicket (plural thickets)

1. A dense, but generally small, growth of shrubs, bushes or small trees; a copse.
2. (figuratively) A dense aggregation of other things, concrete or abstract.
3. (computing, figuratively) 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.

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