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coppice
cop·pice C0630700 (kŏp′ĭs)n. 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.v. cop·piced, cop·pic·ing, cop·pic·es v.tr. To cut or prune (a tree) in making or maintaining a coppice.v.intr. To grow as a coppice after cutting. Used of trees. [Old French copeiz; see copse.]coppice (ˈkɒpɪs) n (Forestry) a thicket or dense growth of small trees or bushes, esp one regularly trimmed back to stumps so that a continual supply of small poles and firewood is obtainedvb1. (Forestry) (tr) to trim back (trees or bushes) to form a coppice2. (Forestry) (intr) to form a coppice[C14: from Old French copeiz, from couper to cut] ˈcoppiced adj ˈcoppicing ncopse (kɒps) also coppice n. a thicket of small trees or bushes; a small wood. [1570–80; alter. of coppice] coppice Past participle: coppiced Gerund: coppicing
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I was coppicing | you were coppicing | he/she/it was coppicing | we were coppicing | you were coppicing | they were coppicing |
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I had coppiced | you had coppiced | he/she/it had coppiced | we had coppiced | you had coppiced | they had coppiced |
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coppice The pruning back to ground level each spring of decorative shrubs or trees to produce colorful stems or more attractive foliage.ThesaurusNoun | 1. | coppice - a dense growth of bushes brush, copse, thicket, brushwoodbotany, flora, vegetation - all the plant life in a particular region or period; "Pleistocene vegetation"; "the flora of southern California"; "the botany of China"brake - an area thickly overgrown usually with one kind of plantcanebrake - a dense growth of cane (especially giant cane)spinney - a copse that shelters gameunderbrush, undergrowth, underwood - the brush (small trees and bushes and ferns etc.) growing beneath taller trees in a wood or forest | Translationscoppice
coppice a thicket or dense growth of small trees or bushes, esp one regularly trimmed back to stumps so that a continual supply of small poles and firewood is obtained coppice[′käp·əs] (ecology) A growth of small trees that are repeatedly cut down at short intervals; the new shoots are produced by the old stumps. coppice
Synonyms for coppicenoun a dense growth of bushesSynonyms- brush
- copse
- thicket
- brushwood
Related Words- botany
- flora
- vegetation
- brake
- canebrake
- spinney
- underbrush
- undergrowth
- underwood
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