boscage

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /bɒskɪdʒ/    美 /bɑskɪd͡ʒ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A place set with trees or mass of shrubbery, a grove or thicket. countable,uncountable
    — At the entrance of the king, the first traverse was drawn, and the lower descent of the mountain discovered, which was the pendant of a hill to life, with divers boscages and grovets upon the steep or hanging grounds thereof.
  2. Mast-nuts of forest trees, used as food for pigs, or any such sustenance as wood and trees yield to cattle. countable,uncountable
  3. Among painters, a picture depicting a wooded scene. countable,uncountable
  4. A tax on wood. countable,uncountable

词形变化

boscages plural boskage alternative

词汇关系

相关词
bocage bosk bosky

词源

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”).
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