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copse

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

Origin:
1570–80; alter. of coppice
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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 
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

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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