Meaning of BOSCAGE
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| 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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