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Copse

//kɒps// noun, verb

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A coppice: an area of woodland managed by coppicing (periodic cutting near stump level).
  2. 2
    a dense growth of bushes wordnet
  3. 3
    Any thicket of small trees or shrubs, coppiced or not.

    "Agrimonie groweth in places not tylled, in rough stone mountaynes, in hedges and Copses, and by waysides."

  4. 4
    Any woodland or woodlot.
Verb
  1. 1
    To trim or cut. transitive
  2. 2
    To plant and preserve. transitive

Etymology

Etymology 1

1578, from coppice, by contraction, originally meaning “small wood grown for purposes of periodic cutting”.

Etymology 2

1578, from coppice, by contraction, originally meaning “small wood grown for purposes of periodic cutting”.

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