coppice
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9.1
- noun
- /ˈkɑːpɪs/
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matorral
- First, we are rediscovering coppice.
Examples
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The road sloping to the water, the yacht anchorage a coppice of masts.
Fiction book (1990) -
She nearly caught up with her knight beneath a cool coppice of oaks.
Fiction book (2001) -
Annual vegetables and forestry practices such as coppice maintain a disturbed ecosystem and do not let it progress to climax.
Blog text (16) -
Thanks to this bizarre coincidence, the slope with the exposed tree roots is in a coppice or thicket where the wood was used for firewood.
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I see the sunk fence by the coppice where Angelina always bids Edwin an eternal farewell in the last chapter of the second volume, and they are there doing it now.
Blog text (22) -
Did they guess he still visited in his thoughts the little pond beyond the coppice, and watched the decorating of a verse, the play of creatures arrested by Conan's pen, fish and birds, snakes coiled about a letter's stem?
Academic text (2011) -
The children discovered a hidden path winding through the lush coppice where they could explore freely.
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Birds chirped happily as they nested in the branches of a coppice filled with young trees and dense undergrowth.
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After the storm, we took a walk through the coppice to see how many trees had fallen during the night.
Synonyms
61
2.2
A thick group of small trees and bushes
22
5.1
A thick area of bushes and small trees that grow close together
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7.5
A small group of trees growing close together
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Etymology
Coppice comes from the old French verb couper, meaning 'to cut', and it was used for a small wood where trees are regularly cut back so new shoots grow. The related English word copse is a short form of the same idea, so a coppice is a group of bushes or small trees kept low by cutting.