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.

Simplified etymology

Copse arose in the late 16th century as a shortened form of coppice. Coppice ultimately derives from Latin colpus, “a blow,” through the idea of woodland cut back by blows.

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

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