copse
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copse
- /kɒps/
Sounds like cops · Rhymes with -ɒps
Where it comes from
1578, from coppice, by contraction, originally meaning “small wood grown for purposes of periodic cutting”.
noun copses
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A coppice: an area of woodland managed by coppicing (periodic cutting near stump level).
Similar: mott
- 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.
- Any woodland or woodlot.
Similar: coppice
verb copses · copsing · copsed
- To trim or cut.
- To plant and preserve.
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noun
Similar: coppice
Translations
Every language
noun thicket of small trees or shrubs
| Español | bosquecillo, soto, matorral |
|---|---|
| Português | souto, capão |
| Français | fourré |
| Deutsch | Busch, Gebüsch, Dickicht, Niederwald |
| Italiano | bosco ceduo, macchia, fratta, boschetto |
| Română | crâng, dumbravă, pădure măruntă, subarboret, tufiș de arbuști |
| Русский | за́росли zárosli, подле́сок podlésok |
| עברית | סבך |
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