1 in a way that involves many people or things that are very close together: --
2 in a way that shows clearly which country or part of a country someone comes from: --
3 made or done so that something has a large distance between two opposite sides: --
There was a massive increase in the number of pen-pushers in thickly carpeted offices.
When fully grown it is covered fairly thickly with dirt, which is of great assistance in the formation of the pupal case, as this is formed of the larval skin.
Very thickly afforested with thin-trunked trees.
Kings and archbishops are not automatically given starring roles, and his stage instead is thickly thronged with a rich diversity of beings, alive, dead, and even the undead.
Her hands were ugly, knotted, thickly spotted.
Many trunks and branches are thickly covered in mosses and epiphytes, whilst the bases of trees are usually engulfed within large moss cushions (up to 30 cm deep).
Foraging theory is useful in the study of exchange in thickly traded impersonal markets.
Parallel-sided massive and thickly bedded sandstones (lithic wacke in character) are present as amalgamated beds and generally lack any grading.
