cop·pice (k p  s)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. [Old French copeiz; see copse.] |
coppice [ˈkɒpɪs]
n
(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / 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 obtained
vb
1. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Forestry) (tr) to trim back (trees or bushes) to form a coppice
2. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Forestry) (intr) to form a coppice
[from Old French copeiz, from couper to cut]
coppiced adj
coppicing n
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| Noun | 1. |  coppice - a dense growth of bushes botany, 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 plant canebrake - a dense growth of cane (especially giant cane) spinney - a copse that shelters game underbrush, undergrowth, underwood - the brush (small trees and bushes and ferns etc.) growing beneath taller trees in a wood or forest |
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