overgrown vegetation; thicket
Tone colorsmāmámǎmàma
Meanings
1 sense · 3 examplesnoun
overgrown vegetation; dense growth of grass and trees; thicket
literaryA literary term describing wild, untamed growth. Often used in classical or descriptive writing to evoke a sense of wilderness or desolation.
Shān山
gǔ谷
zhōng中
zhēn蓁
mǎng莽
cóng丛
shēng生
，
nán难
yǐ以
tōng通
xíng行
。
The valley was overgrown with thickets, making passage difficult.
Zhè这
piàn片
huāng荒
dì地
zǎo早
yǐ已
chéng成
wéi为
zhēn蓁
mǎng莽
zhī之
dì地
。
This wasteland has long become a place of wild overgrowth.
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Tàn探
xiǎn险
duì队
yuán员
men们
bō拨
kāi开
zhēn蓁
mǎng莽
，
xún寻
zhǎo找
gǔ古
miào庙
de的
yí遗
jì迹
。
The explorers pushed aside the dense vegetation, searching for traces of the ancient temple.