boscage
Plural: boscages
Noun
- Dense growth of trees and shrubs; a thicket or woodland.
- A place set with trees or mass of shrubbery, a grove or thicket.
- Mast-nuts of forest trees, used as food for pigs, or any such sustenance as wood and trees yield to cattle.
- Among painters, a picture depicting a wooded scene.
- A tax on wood.
Examples
- The dense BOSCAGE of letters on his rack made it hard to see any clear word paths.
Origin / Etymology
From the Middle English boskage, from the Old French boscage, from Vulgar Latin *boscāticum, from Late Latin boscus, from Frankish *busk (compare Middle Dutch busch), from Proto-Germanic *buskaz (“forest, woods”).
Scrabble Score: 12
boscage: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordboscage: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
boscage: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary
Words With Friends Score: 15
boscage: valid Words With Friends Word