Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗adj
Having relatively high density. · Compact; crowded together. · Thick; difficult to penetrate. · Opaque; allowing little light to pass through.
noun
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryA thicket.
From Middle French dense, from Latin dēnsus, from Proto-Indo-European *dens- (“thick, dense”) (whence also Ancient Greek δασύς (dasús)).
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