Coppice

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A thicket or grove of small trees or shrubs, especially one maintained by periodic cutting or pruning to encourage suckering, as in the cultivation of cinnamon trees for their bark.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. 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.
  • v. To manage a wooded area sustainably, as a coppice.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A grove of small growth; a thicket of brushwood; a wood cut at certain times for fuel or other purposes. See copse.
  • v. To cause to grow in the form of a coppice; to cut back (as young timber) so as to produce shoots from stools or roots.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A wood or thicket formed of trees or bushes of small growth, or consisting of underwood or brushwood; especially, in England, a wood cut at certain times for fuel.
  • Same as copse.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a dense growth of bushes
  • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    botany    flora    vegetation   
    Variant
    copse   
    Hyponym
    undergrowth    underbrush    underwood    spinney    canebrake    brake   
    Form
    coppiced    coppicing    recoppice   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    underwood    copse    hay   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    underwood    dendrite    copse    bosk    clough    rhododendron    shrubbery    dingle    madrone    timberland