buskage

== Swedish == === Etymology === Borrowed from Low German buschkasche, from Old French boschage, from Vulgar Latin *boscāticum, from Latin boscus (“bush”), from Frankish *busk, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *buskaz (“bush; thicket”). First attested in 1658. Cognate with English boscage, Danish buskads, Norwegian Bokmål buskas, and Norwegian Nynorsk buskas. === Noun === buskage n a (dense) collection of shrubs or bushes; a shrubbery or a thicket ==== Usage notes ==== Usually planted. ==== Declension ==== === References === “buskage”, in Svenska Akademiens ordlista [Wordlist of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish) “buskage”, in Svenska Akademiens ordbok [Dictionary of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)