thicket

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

thicket
    n 1: a dense growth of bushes [syn: {brush}, {brushwood},
         {coppice}, {copse}, {thicket}]

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Thicket \Thick"et\, n. [AS. [thorn]iccet. See {Thick}, a.]
   A wood or a collection of trees, shrubs, etc., closely set;
   as, a ram caught in a thicket. --Gen. xxii. 13.
   [1913 Webster]

from The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008)

thicket

   <jargon> Multiple {files} output from some operation.

   The term has been heard in use at {Microsoft} to describe the
   set of {files} output when {Microsoft Word} does "Save As a
   {Web} Page" or "Save as {HTML}".  The process can result in a
   main {XML} or {HTML} {file}, a {graphic} {file} for each
   {image} in the original, a {CSS} {file}, etc.

   This can be an issue as {XML} can be used as the default
   format in {Office 2000}, and {document management systems}
   can't yet cope with the relationship between the {files} in a
   thicket when checking in and out.

   (2001-09-01)

from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

35 Moby Thesaurus words for "thicket":
      batch, boscage, bosket, brake, bunch, canebrake, ceja, chamisal,
      chaparral, clump, cluster, coppice, copse, copsewood, covert, crop,
      frith, group, grouping, groupment, grove, hassock, knot, lot, mess,
      motte, shock, slew, spinney, stook, thickset, tuft, tussock, wisp,
      wood