copse
中文解釋
wordnet sense
Collocation Usage
Collins Definition
Noun
copses, plural;
/käps/,
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copses, plural;
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A small group of trees
Web Definitions:
- brush: a dense growth of bushes
- *Coppice, a tree-pruning practice which produces copses
- A thicket of small trees or shrubs; To trim or cut; To plant and preserve
- a small stand of trees filled with short growth, such as a thicket of brushwood.
- ‘wood managed by coppicing’ (Rackham, ‘Countryside’, p. 97), from Old French copeiz, ‘to cut’, not used in England before thirteenth century (Latham).
- A very small, broad-leaved woodland originally derived from coppicing but now the term is used more widely.
- On Station Road, the area behind the cottages at the junction with St Georges Avenue.