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copse Definition

copse (käps)

noun

a thicket of small trees or shrubs; coppice

Etymology: < coppice

copse Synonyms

copse

n.

copse Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • enter: As the track begins to curve to the left a small path enters a small copse to the left.
  • include: The gently sloping gardens - not suitable for the elderly or toddlers, include a copse, lawns, flower meadow and formal gardens.
  • pass: We crossed the track, and went through the wide hedge gap along the wide grass path passing a young copse on our right.
  • know: At the present day there is a little copse known as Dame Sayers Hill Wood in the Lynch.
  • create: The National Forest Company is donating 20 ( Plant a Tree ) schemes to create a carriage drivers copse at Catton Park.

Preposition: at

  • top: There was a Speckled Wood Butterfly in the copse at the top of the Mill Hill.

Adjective modifier

  • wooded: French windows lead from the room into the garden at the far end of which is a wooded copse.
  • small: These forest remnants take the form of small copses of Holm Oak where the total number of trees is less than thirty.
  • little: We were moored near a little copse, which was good for hunting.
  • nearby: As soon as I arrived my attention had been grabbed by a racket coming from a nearby copse.
  • ancient: Every species of snail, every ancient copse that is lost, is lost forever.
  • birch: At the bottom end of the bed, beside the birch copse, the colors are at the hot end of the scale.

Modifies a noun

  • area: One was over Battlesbury, to the east, the two others over the Cradle Hill copse area.

Noun used with modifier

  • woodland: Scattered small ponds are associated with the farms and isolated woodland copses.
  • butterfly: In the butterfly copse ( near the Waterworks Road ) ( TQ 209 063 ) a Magpie Moth made a brief appearance.
  • oak: Set in a beautiful oak copse divided between two parks amidst the shy red squirrels.

Preposition: on

  • top: This one is easier, it's the copse on top of Golden Ball Hill.

Preposition: of

  • tree: From here follow the Pennine Way north to the small copse of trees on top of the hill.
  • birch: It is surrounded by a copse of silver birch, some of which have been felled to create glades.
  • woodland: The gentle curves of the canal complement the open countryside and occasional copses of woodland that comprise this part of West Lothian.

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