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copse
copse C0631700 (kŏps)n. A thicket of small trees or shrubs; a coppice.
[Middle English copys, from Old French copeiz, thicket for cutting, from coper, couper, to cut; see cope1.]copse (kɒps) n (Forestry) another word for coppice1[C16: by shortening from coppice]copse (kɒps) also coppice
n. a thicket of small trees or bushes; a small wood. [1570–80; alter. of coppice] Copse a thicket of underwood and small trees; the underwood of a wood or forest.Example: copse of trees, 1578.Thesaurus| Noun | 1. |  copse - a dense growth of bushes brush, coppice, 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 |
TranslationsEncyclopediaSeecoppiceCOPSE
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| COPSE➣Council on Post-Secondary Education | | COPSE➣Croydon Outdoor Pursuits and Social Events Club (UK) | | COPSE➣Collaborative Project Support Environment | | COPSE➣Clusters of Orthologous and Paralogous SEquences |
copse
Synonyms for copsenoun a dense growth of bushesSynonyms- brush
- coppice
- thicket
- brushwood
Related Words- botany
- flora
- vegetation
- brake
- canebrake
- spinney
- underbrush
- undergrowth
- underwood
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