noun. A dense growth of shrubs or underbrush; a copse.

noun. Something suggestive of a dense growth of plants, as in impenetrability or thickness.

noun. Specifically, in forestry, a stand of saplings.

noun. A number of shrubs, bushes, or trees set and growing close together; a thick coppice, grove, or the like.

noun. A wood or a collection of trees, shrubs, etc., closely set.

noun. A dense, but generally small, growth of shrubs, bushes or small trees; a copse.

noun. 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.

noun. a dense growth of bushes

"This historical thicket is rendered all but impenetrable by the facts that, as Browning lucidly and vividly demonstrates, German anti-Semitism was hardly a fixed concept but, rather, evolved and mutated with the ever shifting circumstances; that the Nazi regime and its chains of command and decision were highly decentralized — which meant that at any given moment the interpretations and conceptions of, say, Goebbels and Rosenberg concerning the timing and realization of the Final Solution could vary significantly from those of Himmler and Heydrich; and, most important, that the documentary evidence is both vast and frustratingly incomplete."