| Front | dense |
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| Back | dense /dens/ adjective 1made of or containing a lot of things or people that are very close together SYN thick dense undergrowth/forest/woodland/jungle etc A narrow track wound steeply up through dense forest. a dense rurally-based population 2difficult to see through or breathe in dense fog/smoke/cloud dense black smoke 3informal not able to understand things easily SYN stupid: Am I being dense? I don’t quite understand. 4a dense piece of writing is difficult to understand because it contains a lot of information or uses complicated language 5technical a substance that is dense has a lot of mass in relation to its size: Water is eight hundred times denser than air. —densely adverb: a densely populated area —denseness noun [uncountable] COLLOCATIONS nouns dense forest/wood/woodland/jungle Their helicopter could not land because of the dense jungle. dense undergrowth (=plants, bushes etc growing around and under trees) The bird is found mainly in woodland where there is dense undergrowth. dense vegetation (=plants in general) The land around here is covered with dense vegetation. dense foliage (=leaves of a plant or tree) a thick bushy plant with dense foliage a dense covering of something steep-sided mountains with a dense covering of trees a dense mass a dense mass of equatorial rainforest a dense network of something The country is served by a dense network of roads. a dense population (=a lot of people living close together) Britain has a particular problem because of dense population. |
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