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cop⋅pice

  [kop-is]
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–noun
copse.
Origin:
1375–1425; late ME copies < MF copeis, OF copeiz < VL *colpātīcium cutover area, equiv. to *colpāt(us) ptp. of *colpāre to cut (see coup 1 ) + -īcium -ice

Related forms:
coppiced, adjective

copse

  [kops]
–noun
a thicket of small trees or bushes; a small wood.
Also, coppice.

Origin:
1570–80; alter. of coppice
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cop·pice   (kŏp'ĭs)   
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.

[Old French copeiz; see copse.]
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Coppice

Cop"pice\ (k[o^]p"p[i^]s), n. [OF. copeiz, fr. coper, couper, to cut, F. couper, fr. cop, coup, colp, a blow, F. coup, L. colaphus, fr. Gr. ko`lafos. Cf. Copse, and cf. Coup['e], Coupee.] A grove of small growth; a thicket of brushwood; a wood cut at certain times for fuel or other purposes. See Copse.

The rate of coppice lands will fall, upon the discovery of coal mines. --Locke.

Coppice

Cop"pice\ (k[o^]p"p[i^]s), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Coppiced (-p[i^]st); p. pr. & vb. n. Coppicing.] (Forestry) 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.
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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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