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coppice
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cop·pice  (kps)
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
Noun
a small group of trees or bushes growing close together [Old French copeiz]
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.coppicecoppice - 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
Translations
coppice [ˈkɔpɪs], copse [kɔps] nbosquecillo
coppice [ˈkɔpɪs], copse [kɔps] ntaillis m
coppice [ˈkɔpɪs] nWäldchen nt
coppice [ˈkɔpɪs], copse [kɔps] nbosco ceduo


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