copse

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   Any thicket of small trees or shrubs, coppiced or not.

   Agrimonie groweth in places not tylled, in rough stone mountaynes, in hedges and Copses, and by waysides.

2. 2
   noun

   a dense growth of bushes

3. 3
   noun

   A coppice: an area of woodland managed by coppicing (periodic cutting near stump level).

4. 4
   noun

   Any woodland or woodlot.

1578, from coppice, by contraction, originally meaning “small wood grown for purposes of periodic cutting”.

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