noun, verb ·Uncommon ·College level

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

Synonyms

All synonyms

coppicecoppicethicketbatchbocageboscage

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”.

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