coppice

¹cop·pice

noun \ˈkä-pəs\

Definition of COPPICE

1

: a thicket, grove, or growth of small trees

2

: forest originating mainly from shoots or root suckers rather than seed

Examples of COPPICE

1. <the deer bounded off into the coppice>

Origin of COPPICE

Middle English copies cutover area overgrown with brush, from Middle French copeis, from Old French, from Vulgar Latin *colpaticium, from *colpare to cut, from Late Latin colpus blow — more at cope

First Known Use: 1534

Related to COPPICE

Synonyms: boscage (also boskage), bosk (or bosque), bosquet, brake, brushwood, chaparral, thicket, copse, covert

Related Words: canebrake; brush, bush, scrub, scrubland; bramble, jungle, tangle; grove, hedge, stand, woodlot; forest, greenwood, wildwood, wood, woodland

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Other Ecology Terms

Malthusian, anthropogenic, biomass, carbon footprint, crepuscular, niche, sere, symbiosis, taiga, tundra