Copse

Quick meaning: Copse is a noun meaning A coppice: an area of woodland managed by coppicing (periodic cutting near stump level).

Meaning

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

More Meanings

1. Any thicket of small trees or shrubs, coppiced or not.
2. Any woodland or woodlot.
3. (transitive, horticulture) To trim or cut.
4. (transitive, horticulture) To plant and preserve.

Example Sentences

Striking the highway beyond the little copse she skirted the dark iron palings enclosing Hare.

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

Three thundercloven thrones of oldest snow, / Stood sunsetflushed: and, dewed with showery drops, / Upclomb the shadowy pine above the woven copse.

The day is come when I again repose Here, under this dark sycamore, and view These plots of cottage-ground, these orchard tufts, Which at this season, with their unripe fruits, Among the woods and copses lose themselves,

Word Forms

• copses
• copsing
• copsed

Synonyms for copse

Depending on context, synonyms include coppice, mott, thicket, bush, orchard, stand.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include coppice, brushwood, thicket, brush, boscage, wood.

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