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