copse

copse  (kps)

n.

A thicket of small trees or shrubs; a coppice.

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[Middle English copys, from Old French copeiz, thicket for cutting, from coper, couper, to cut; see cope¹.]

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copse [kɒps]

n

(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Forestry) another word for coppice [1]

[by shortening from coppice]

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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, brushwood 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

copse [kɒps] N → soto m, bosquecillo m

copse [ˈkɒps] n (= coppice) → taillis m

copse

n → Wäldchen nt