Copse
/kɒps/ noun, verb
noun, verb ·Uncommon ·College level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 A coppice: an area of woodland managed by coppicing (periodic cutting near stump level).
- 2 a dense growth of bushes wordnet
- 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 Any woodland or woodlot.
Verb
- 1 To trim or cut. transitive
- 2 To plant and preserve. transitive
Example
More examples"They came to a copse of trees at the edge of the field."
Etymology
1578, from coppice, by contraction, originally meaning “small wood grown for purposes of periodic cutting”.