Sentence examples for of thickets from inspiring English sources

Monaghan, Irish Muineachán ("Place of Thickets"), one of the three counties of Ireland forming part of the historic province of Ulster that now projects northward into Northern Ireland.

Undergrowth consists of thickets, bromeliads (plants with basal, often spiny leaves), and innumerable cacti, among which is the xiquexique (Cereus gounellei), the complicated intertwinings of which cover the soil.

Controlled by a milelong, solar-charged portable electric fence that creates a 40-acre box, the animals make short work of thickets of poison oak, scrubby digger pine and just about anything made of cellulose.

Below the area of thickets, open littoral is represented by fine brown (homogeneous) clayey silts.

Expansion of croplands has been taking place since 1987 and before on the cost of thickets and shrublands, especially on the foothills and lowlands.

The border area between algae communities of thickets and the open pelagic zone of the reservoir is a sort of ecotone.

The photographs are vivid, sometimes startling glimpses through the natural keyholes of thicket, grass and leaves at secret birds, caught unaware.

However, conservationists concerned with the status of thicket-dependent species are confronted with two important questions.

Large tracts of thicket have been removed during mining and exhausted quarry areas had to be revegetated.

Other strong patterns were the restriction of Forest to sandstone-derived soils and of Thicket to soils of deep to intermediate depth.

Thus our results suggest that the absence of thicket from bottomlands is not under edaphic control but could potentially be driven by climatic factors.