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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. a dense growth of bushes;
[syn: brush, brushwood, coppice, copse, thicket]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Coppice \Cop"pice\ (k[o^]p"p[i^]s), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Coppiced (k[o^]p"p[i^]st); p. pr. & vb. n. Coppicing (k[o^]p"p[i^]*s[i^]ng).] (Forestry) 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. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Coppice \Cop"pice\ (k[o^]p"p[i^]s), n. [OF. copeiz, fr. coper, couper, to cut, F. couper, fr. cop, coup, colp, a blow, F. coup, L. colaphus, fr. Gr. ko`lafos. Cf. Copse, and cf. Coup['e], Coupee.] A grove of small growth; a thicket of brushwood; a wood cut at certain times for fuel or other purposes. See Copse. [1913 Webster] The rate of coppice lands will fall, upon the discovery of coal mines. --Locke. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

coppice n 1: a dense growth of bushes [syn: brush, brushwood, coppice, copse, thicket]