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Meaning of BOSCAGE

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\Bos"cage\, n. [OF. boscage grove, F. bocage, fr. LL.
boscus, buscus, thicket, wood. See 1st {Bush}.]
1. A growth of trees or shrubs; underwood; a thicket; thick
   foliage; a wooded landscape.
2. (O. Eng. Law) Food or sustenance for cattle, obtained from
   bushes and trees; also, a tax on wood.
 
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 Related Terms: bosket, brake, canebrake, ceja, chamisal, chaparral, coppice, copse, copsewood, covert, frith, motte, thicket, thickset, underbrush, undergrowth, undershrubs, underwood
 

 

 

 

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