boscage

boscage or bos·kage [bos-kij] Word Origin See more synonyms for boscage on Thesaurus.com noun

1. a mass of trees or shrubs; wood, grove, or thicket.

Origin of boscage 1350–1400; Middle English boskage Middle French boscage. See bosk, -age Related Words for boscage wasteland, wood, forest, thicket, scrub, shrubbery, tree, foliage, hedge, topiary, underbrush, clump, web, undergrowth, labyrinth, zoo, bush, maze, tangle, morass British Dictionary definitions for boscage boscage boskage noun

1. literary a mass of trees and shrubs; thicket

Word Origin for boscage C14: from Old French bosc, probably of Germanic origin; see bush 1, -age