MEANING
A group of trees or shrubs cut back periodically so that new shoots grow from their bases.
Use it for
Managed woodland, clustered young stems, and repeated regrowth.Show why a wood consists of many thin stems.
Words that belong together
- hazel coppice
- coppice stools
- coppice shoots
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Straight shoots crowded the hazel coppice.
Beyond the field lay a coppice cut back the previous winter.
The old stools in the coppice each carried a ring of young stems.
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Word forms
- Base
- coppice
Usage notes
Primary category: environment. Implies this regrowth practice, unlike an ordinary copse; can also be a verb for cutting in this way. Plural: coppices; Verb: coppice, coppices, coppiced, coppicing.
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