Copse \Copse\, n. [Contr. from coppice.]
A wood of small growth; a thicket of brushwood. See
Coppice.
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Near yonder copse where once the garden smiled.
--Goldsmith.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Copse \Copse\, v. t.
1. To trim or cut; -- said of small trees, brushwood, tufts
of grass, etc. --Halliwell.
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2. To plant and preserve, as a copse. --Swift.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
copse
n : a dense growth of bushes [syn: brush, brushwood, coppice,
thicket]
WordNet (r) 2.0
43 Moby Thesaurus words for "copse":
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
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
brush, brushwood, coppice, thicket
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