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copse
[kops] 
–noun
| a thicket of small trees or bushes; a small wood. |
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| copse (kŏps) 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
Copse\, n. [Contr. from coppice.] A wood of small growth; a thicket of brushwood. See Coppice. Near yonder copse where once the garden smiled. --Goldsmith.Copse
Copse\, v. t. 1. To trim or cut; -- said of small trees, brushwood, tufts of grass, etc. --Halliwell. 2. To plant and preserve, as a copse. --Swift.
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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).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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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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