boskage

boskage [bos-kij] Examples See more synonyms for boskage on Thesaurus.com noun

1. boscage.

boscage or bos·kage [bos-kij] 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 boskage thicket, coppice, bush, brake, brush, copse, underwood, brushwood, boscage, boskage, understory Examples from the Web for boskage Historical Examples of boskage

And there at last was the cave-mouth hidden under the boskage of the leaves.

The Men of the Moss-Hags

S. R. Crockett

This way thrust itself like a black tongue into the boskage and vanished in the depths.

The Metal Monster

A. Merritt

For a while I had noticed the road seemed flanked by a mass of boskage below it on the right-hand side.

Highways & Byways in Sussex

E.V. Lucas

British Dictionary definitions for boskage 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