Meaning of COPSE
| Pronunciation: | | kâps
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| | Definition: | | [n] a dense growth of bushes |
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| | Synonyms: | | brush, brushwood, coppice, thicket |
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| | See Also: | | brake, canebrake, flora, spinney, underbrush, undergrowth, underwood, vegetation | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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\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\, 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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| | Related Terms: | | batch, bocage, boscage, bosk, bosket, brake, bunch, canebrake, ceja, chamisal, chaparral, clump, cluster, coppice, copsewood, covert, crop, frith, group, grouping, groupment, grove, hassock, holt, hurst, knot, lot, mess, motte, orchard, shaw, shock, slew, spinney, stook, thicket, thickset, tope, tuft, tussock, wisp, wood lot, woodlet |
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