thicket

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noun

Plural noun:

thickets

1.
A dense, but generally small, growth of shrubs, bushes or small trees; a copse.
2.
(figuratively)A dense aggregation of other things, concrete or abstract.
He had to complete a thicket of paperwork before he was allowed to join the company.
3.
(figuratively)(computing, figuratively) 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.

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Middle English *thikket, from Old English þiccet, from þicce (thick) + Old English - nominal suffix -et. Compare similar Dickicht, which is first attested in the 17th century, however.