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bosky (BOS-kee) adjective

1. Having an abundance of bushes, shrubs, or trees.

2. Of or relating to woods.

[From Middle English bosk, bush, from Medieval Latin bosca, of Germanic origin.]

"And with each end of thy blue bow dost crown My bosky acres, and my unshrubb'd down," Shakespeare, William, Tempest, The: Act IV.

This week's theme: words about trees.

There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action. -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)

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