copse
/kɒps
/noun
A small group of trees.As one approaches the copse of trees at the entrance to Tobernalt, one usually stands still by a large rock to look around in the shady dim light....
- Somerset looked as if it'd just got out of the shower and wasn't properly towel-dried yet, with trees and copses and hedgerows on all sides bedraggled and uncombed.
- I don't see the hedges, the trees, the copses; and the flights of wild fowl passing across my window go unseen, too.
Synonyms
thicket, grove, wood, coppice, stand, clump, brake;
British spinney;
North American & Australian/New Zealand brush
archaic hurst, holt, boscage
Origin
Late 16th century: shortened from coppice.
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