boscage

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of BOSCAGE

a thick patch of shrubbery, small trees, or underbrush <hidden from prying eyes by a leafy boscage, the cottage was the perfect trysting place>

Synonyms boscage (also boskage), bosk (or bosque), bosquet, brake, brushwood, chaparral, coppice, copse, covert

Related Words canebrake; brush, bush, scrub, scrubland; bramble, jungle, tangle; grove, hedge, stand, woodlot; forest, greenwood, wildwood, wood, woodland

boscage also boskage

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