copse
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noun
a thicket of small trees or bushes; a small wood.
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Copse
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| a fool or simpleton; ninny. |
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Word Origin & History
copse
1570s, "small wood grown for purposes of periodic cutting," contraction of coppice.
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Encyclopedia Britannica
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copse
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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Example sentences
Only the tin-lined cache remained, a brokendown platform perched in a copse of spruce above the stream.
To the southwest is a red pine plantation and small copse of box elder.
For there is indeed a cuckoo calling, from the copse behind the restaurant.
It's hidden in a copse approached by a dirt road marked only by two discreet gateposts.
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