Copse meaning

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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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A thicket of small trees or shrubs; a coppice.
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A thicket of small trees or shrubs.
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A thicket of small trees or shrubs.
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(horticulture) To trim or cut.
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(horticulture) To plant and preserve.
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Origin of copse

  • Middle English copys from Old French copeiz thicket for cutting from coper, couper to cut cope1
    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
  • 1578, from coppice, by contraction, originally meaning “small wood grown for purposes of periodic cutting”.
    From Wiktionary

Copse Sentence Examples

  • I have seen bricks amid the oak copse there.

  • He stayed with them and was shocked when the car left the road, bumping into a secluded copse, frightening the girl.

  • On the left our troops were close to a copse, in which smoked the bonfires of our infantry who were felling wood.

  • DUMFRIES (Gaelic, "the fort in the copse"), a royal and parliamentary burgh and capital of the county, Dumfriesshire, Scotland.

  • hyrst, copse, wood), e.g.

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