a thicket of small trees or shrubs
Origin of copse
from coppice
noun
The definition of a copse is an area of trees or a dense growth of bush.
A small clustering of pine trees is an example of a copse.
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copse
noun
A thicket of small trees or shrubs; a coppice.
Origin of copse
Middle English copys from Old French copeiz thicket for cutting from coper, couper to cut ; see cope 1.THE AMERICAN HERITAGE® DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE, FIFTH EDITION by the Editors of the American Heritage Dictionaries. Copyright © 2016, 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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Verb
(third-person singular simple present copses, present participle copsing, simple past and past participle copsed)
- (horticulture) To trim or cut.
- (horticulture) To plant and preserve.
Origin
1578, from coppice, by contraction, originally meaning “small wood grown for purposes of periodic cutting”.
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Sentence Examples
- I have seen bricks amid the oak copse there.
- On the left our troops were close to a copse, in which smoked the bonfires of our infantry who were felling wood.
- He stayed with them and was shocked when the car left the road, bumping into a secluded copse, frightening the girl.
- Hyrst, copse, wood), e.g.
- DUMFRIES (Gaelic, "the fort in the copse"), a royal and parliamentary burgh and capital of the county, Dumfriesshire, Scotland.
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