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

[Origin: 1570–80; alter. of coppice]
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n.   A thicket of small trees or shrubs; a coppice.


[Middle English copys, from Old French copeiz, thicket for cutting, from coper, couper, to cut; see cope1.]

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copse 
1578, "small wood grown for purposes of periodic cutting," contraction of coppice, from O.Fr. coupeiz "a cut-over forest," from L.L. *colpaticium "having the quality of being cut," from *colpare "to cut, strike," from L.L. colpus "a blow" (see coup).

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copse

noun
a dense growth of bushes [syn: brush] 

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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.
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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.
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