jungle vs thicket

jungle

noun
  • A large, undeveloped, humid forest, especially in a tropical region, that is home to many wild plants and animals; a tropical rainforest. 

  • Dense rough. 

  • A style of electronic dance music and precursor of drum and bass. 

  • A hairy vulva. 

  • Any uncultivated tract of forest or scrub habitat. 

  • A place where people behave ruthlessly, unconstrained by law or morality. 

  • An area where hobos camp together. 

  • A desert region. 

  • A migrant camp. 

  • A tangled mess. 

adj
  • resembling the fast-paced drumming of traditional peoples of the jungle. 

thicket

noun
  • A dense, but generally small, growth of shrubs, bushes or small trees; a copse. 

  • A dense aggregation of other things, concrete or abstract. 

  • The collection of many small linked files created when a document is saved in HTML format by some word processors and web site creation software. 

How often have the words jungle and thicket occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )