boscages

Noun

boscage (countable and uncountable, plural boscages)

1. A place set with trees or mass of shrubbery, a grove or thicket.
   • At the entrance of the king, the first traverse was drawn, and the lower descent of the mountain discovered, which was the pendant of a hill to life, with divers boscages and grovets upon the steep or hanging grounds thereof.1811, Ben Jonson, The Dramatic Works: Embellished with Portraits, volume 4, page 571
2. Mast-nuts of forest trees, used as food for pigs, or any such sustenance as wood and trees yield to cattle.
3. Among painters, a picture depicting a wooded scene.
4. A tax on wood.