a group of bushes or small trees growing closely together 灌木丛；树丛 a dense thicket of bamboo 茂密的竹林
a large number of things that are not easy to understand or separate 错综复杂；盘根错节 He spent the morning trying to work his way through a thicket of statistics. 他花了一上午的时间试图在错综复杂的统计数据中找到出路。
Word OriginOld English thiccet (from thick and -et).