copse
a thicket of small trees or bushes; a small wood.
Origin of copse
1- Also coppice.
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How to use copse in a sentence
One instant more, and there were glimpses below us of the rotting pine copses and mossy bogs surrounding Petersburg.
Dream Tales and Prose Poems | Ivan TurgenevThe cavalry could not act, from the multitude of hedges and copses which intersected the theatre of conflict.
The Cornet of Horse | G. A. HentyIt probably would thrive best in the shade, as it is found in copses.
The plant-lore and garden-craft of Shakespeare | Henry Nicholson EllacombeWe walked along a scarcely trodden path, through a grassy glade between two birch copses.
A Desperate Character and Other Stories | Ivan TurgenevThe entrance to a combe—the widening mouth of a valley—is beyond, with copses on the slopes.
The Hills and the Vale | Richard Jefferies
British Dictionary definitions for copse
/ (kɒps) /
another word for coppice (def. 1)
Origin of copse
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