Coppice

Quick meaning: Coppice is a noun meaning (transitive) To manage (a wooded area) sustainably, as a coppice, by periodically cutting back woody plants to promote new growth.

Meaning

(transitive) To manage (a wooded area) sustainably, as a coppice, by periodically cutting back woody plants to promote new growth.

More Meanings

1. (intransitive) To sprout from the stump.
2. A grove of small growth; a thicket of brushwood; a wood cut at certain times for fuel or other purposes, typically managed to promote growth and ensure a reliable supply of timber. See copse.

Example Sentences

Few conifer species can coppice.

Her plan to coppice the woods should keep her self-sufficient in fuel indefinitely.

It was also enacted that all coppices or underwoods should be enclosed for periods from four to seven years after felling.

[…]belts of thin white mist streaked the brown plough land in the hollow where Appleby could see the pale shine of a winding river. Across that in turn, meadow and coppice rolled away past the white walls of a village bowered in orchards,[…]

Word Forms

• coppices
• coppis
• coppicing
• coppiced

Synonyms for coppice

Depending on context, synonyms include copse, brush, thicket, brushwood.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include copse, thicket, brushwood, brush, grove, bosket.

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