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coppice Definition

cop·pice (käp′is)

noun

copse

Etymology: ME copis < OFr copeis < coper, colper, to strike: see coup

coppice Usage Examples

Converse of object

grow: The young oaks have features which suggest an origin in some form of long growing coppice.

Adjective modifier

  • hazel: Among these is an area of hazel coppice which is part of the historic management of the site.
  • chestnut: An adjacent chestnut coppice worked on a 20 year rotation was unnoticed by the artist at the time of the commission.
  • sweet: Further along the main path, the firs give way to reveal sweet chestnut coppice.
  • short: And the idea of growing short rotation coppice of willows to burn to provide electric power is already being tried.
  • old: The adjacent woodland is a mixture of old coppice, ash and maple with semi-mature oak.
  • small: Walk to the far right corner and pass through a small coppice to meet a lane.

Modifies a noun

  • stool: Beware also of very large old coppice stools which may appear like a ring of younger stems!
  • willow: We have started a project using short rotation coppice willow clones.
  • woodland: The trees felled will be replaced with a coppice woodland.
  • rotation: Such hazel requires a coppice rotation of up to eight years.
  • shoot: Most broadleaf trees have the capacity to regenerate by producing new coppice shoots from the stump.
  • cycle: The main part of the Reserve is managed on a 12-year coppice cycle.

Noun used with modifier

  • short-rotation: All vehicles replaced by hydrogen fuel cell vehicles with zero CO 2 emissions, powered by renewable, short-rotation coppice produced fuel.
  • hornbeam: What to see: Hornbeam coppice woodland with mature oaks.
  • rotation: We have started a project using short rotation coppice willow clones.
  • willow: He installed a heating system which is fuelled by willow coppice grown on his own farm.
  • oak: Apple orchards are plentiful in favored situations, especially adjoining the Herefordshire border, and oak coppice abounds.

Preposition: of

tree: Wheatfields stretch from horizon to horizon, relieved by a few coppices of cork oak trees with their oddly blackened trunks.

Preposition: with

standard: Where coppice with standards is the objective, then no more than 10 native standard trees per hectare are kept.