Coppice

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  • noun. A thicket or grove of small trees or shrubs, especially one maintained by periodic cutting or pruning to encourage suckering, as in the cultivation of cinnamon trees for their bark.
  • intransitive verb. To cut or prune (a tree) in making or maintaining a coppice.
  • intransitive verb. To grow as a coppice after cutting. Used of trees.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Same as copse.
  • noun. A wood or thicket formed of trees or bushes of small growth, or consisting of underwood or brushwood; especially, in England, a wood cut at certain times for fuel.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A grove of small growth; a thicket of brushwood; a wood cut at certain times for fuel or other purposes. See copse.
  • transitive verb. To cause to grow in the form of a coppice; to cut back (as young timber) so as to produce shoots from stools or roots.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A grove of small growth; a thicket of brushwood; a wood cut at certain times for fuel or other purposes, typically managed to promote growth and ensure a reliable supply of timber. See copse.
  • verb. To manage a wooded area sustainably, as a coppice.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. a dense growth of bushes
    • Word Usage
    "While in coppice loud shrilleth and trilleth Hazár,"
    Form
    coppiced  coppicing  recoppice  
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    botany  flora  vegetation  
    Hyponym
    Words that are more specific
    brake  canebrake  spinney  underbrush  undergrowth  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    bosk  canebrake  clough  coombe  copse  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    copse  hay  underwood  
    variant
    copse  
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