copse
a thicket of small trees or bushes; a small wood.
Origin of copse
1- Also coppice.
Words Nearby copse
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How to use copse in a sentence
These dumps and contaminated sites are scattered across the area in pine copses and beneath the grass.
A North Carolina town struggles under the toxic shadow of the company that built it | Emily Cataneo/Undark | December 17, 2021 | Popular-ScienceChristopher Lloyd, who created a repository of outsized characters, strides across the stage under a copse of soaring spruce.
Christopher Lloyd is still playing characters who are unhinged — and larger than life | Karen Heller | August 26, 2021 | Washington PostBack down along the Orontes, very early the day before, my friend dropped me off on a dirt track by a copse of trees.
I suspect the Anglo-Saxon bearo, a grove or copse, is the word here preserved.
The piece of common was soon passed; and then a copse-wood, filled with brakes and briars, had to be passed through.
Digby Heathcote | W.H.G. Kingston
On their arrival they found that the herd were feeding at a considerable distance from the copse, which was perhaps as well.
The Children of the New Forest | Captain MarryatIn a moment more he perceived his own dog, Smoker, come bounding out of a neighbouring copse, followed by Humphrey and Pablo.
The Children of the New Forest | Captain MarryatNot far off, alongside a birch copse, ran a road planted with willows: the country seemed familiar to me.
Dream Tales and Prose Poems | Ivan Turgenev
British Dictionary definitions for copse
/ (kɒps) /
another word for coppice (def. 1)
Origin of copse
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