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Coppice
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| a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal. |
| the offspring of a zebra and a donkey. |
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coppice
1530s, "small thicket of trees grown for cutting," from O.Fr. copeiz, coupeiz "a cut-over forest," from L.L. *colpaticium "having been cut," ult. from L. colaphus, from Gk. kolaphos "blow, cuff" (see coup).
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Encyclopedia Britannica
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coppice
a dense grove of small trees or shrubs that have grown from suckers or sprouts rather than from seed. A coppice usually results from human woodcutting activity and may be maintained by continually cutting new growth as it reaches usable size
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