| 单词 | copse |
| 释义 | copse (once / 2417 pages) n A copse is a thicket of bushes or a small stand of trees. A copse of trees can provide a good hiding place during a game of hide-and-seek. If you go to your local garden shop and ask about how to take care of your copse, you may get some blank stares, as it's not a word you'll find much in everyday use. The word first appeared in the late-sixteenth century, as a shortened form of coppice, a word still used in British English, referring to an area with trees or shrubs that are periodically cut back to the ground so that they grow back thicker. WORD FAMILYcopse: copses USAGE EXAMPLESThe terrain is similar, too, with broad pastures and fields between copses of trees, and few hills of any size. Seattle Times(Oct 12, 2016) We camped that night next to coffee-colored creek called Magpie, in a copse of ash and cottonwood. New York Times(Sep 13, 2016) Surrounded by a cluster of trees called Mansel Copse, the site is separated from the village of Mametz by a shallow valley of French farmland. BBC(Jul 01, 2016) n a dense growth of trees, shrubs, or bushes Syn|Hypo|Hyper brush, brushwood, coppice, thicket brake an area thickly overgrown usually with one kind of plant canebrakea dense growth of cane (especially giant cane) spinneya copse that shelters game underbrush, undergrowth, underwoodthe brush (small trees and bushes and ferns etc.) growing beneath taller trees in a wood or forest ground cover, groundcoversmall plants other than saplings growing on a forest floor botany, flora, vegetation all the plant life in a particular region or period |
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