Coppice definition

kŏpĭs
coppices
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To cut or prune (a tree) in making or maintaining a coppice.
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A thicket or grove of small trees or shrubs, especially one maintained by periodic cutting or pruning to encourage suckering, as in the cultivation of cinnamon trees for their bark.
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To manage a wooded area sustainably, as a coppice.

Her plan to coppice the woods should keep her self-sufficient in fuel indefinitely.

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To grow as a coppice after cutting. Used of trees.
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A grove of small growth; a thicket of brushwood; a wood cut at certain times for fuel or other purposes, typically managed to promote growth and ensure a reliable supply of timber. See copse.
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Noun

Singular:
coppice
Plural:
coppices

Origin of coppice

  • Old French copeiz copse

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Old French copeiz (“a cut-over forest”), from presumed Late Latin *colpaticium (“having the quality of being cut”), from *colpare (“to cut, strike”), from Medieval Latin colpus (“a blow”), from Vulgar Latin colapus, from Latin colaphus (“a cuff, box on the ear”), from Ancient Greek κόλαφος (kolaphos).

    From Wiktionary

Coppice Sentence Examples

  • The trees felled will be replaced with a coppice woodland.

  • Two Mile Coppice contains the last remnant of ancient woodland in the Weymouth area.

  • Where poles are required, it is better to treat the trees as coppice and to cut the trunk level with the soil.

  • Bracken beds in sunny locations can develop a simple spring flora (including violets) that mimics that found in coppice woodland.

  • The currently favored crop under northern European conditions is willow grown as short rotation coppice.

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