as in grove
a thick patch of shrubbery, small trees, or underbrush
a small copse of trees shaded the back of the house
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Recent Examples of copse
The public university, which has served primarily Black students for more than 50 years, sits on a gorgeous, 161-acre campus, clustered with copses of stately trees that make the grounds look something like an East Coast institution with a far longer lineage than CSU.
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The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 11 Aug. 2025
She had been dragged and pushed by two men into a copse on Hampstead Heath.
—Sarah Beckwith, New Yorker, 26 May 2025
The eyes in the sky gazed down on a copse of spindly trees in western Russia, hooking onto where North Korean forces were coalescing, a Ukrainian special operations forces commander, who is being identified only by his call sign, Green, told Newsweek.
—Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 23 Mar. 2025
Below us were hayfields and stone barns, copses and creeks.
—Nick Paumgarten, The New Yorker, 10 Feb. 2025
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The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 11 Aug. 2025
She had been dragged and pushed by two men into a copse on Hampstead Heath.
—Sarah Beckwith, New Yorker, 26 May 2025
The eyes in the sky gazed down on a copse of spindly trees in western Russia, hooking onto where North Korean forces were coalescing, a Ukrainian special operations forces commander, who is being identified only by his call sign, Green, told Newsweek.
—Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 23 Mar. 2025
Below us were hayfields and stone barns, copses and creeks.
—Nick Paumgarten, The New Yorker, 10 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for copse
Noun
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The roughly 2,700-square-foot main house sits amid more than 4,000 macadamia trees, along with avocado, finger lime, apple banana, and tangerine groves, offering sweeping ocean and landscape views from a broad lanai.—
Abby Montanez,
Robb Report,
6 Oct. 2025
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Land and infrastructure critical to food production, including tree crops like olive groves and fruit orchards, and fields for growing vegetables, have been virtually wiped out.—
Kim Hjelmgaard,
USA Today,
6 Oct. 2025
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The terrain transitioned to a blend of forest and hills.—
Rosecrans Baldwin,
Travel + Leisure,
11 Oct. 2025
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The initiative aims to restore about 30 acres of forest, with the potential to unlock up to $376 million in future financing.—
Tarciana Medeiros,
MSNBC Newsweek,
10 Oct. 2025
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The two most straightforward of the trials will involve large-scale planting of trees and bioenergy crops, including Miscanthus grasses and coppice willow, reports Robert Lea for AZoCleanTech.—
Alex Fox,
Smithsonian Magazine,
27 May 2021
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Another strategy, called short rotation coppice, involves planting fast-growing trees such as willows and poplars in extremely dense rows.—
Eric Toensmeier,
Scientific American,
1 Aug. 2020
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With deer lying tight in the thickets along the streams, stalking mistakes would be easy to make.—
Jim Moore,
Outdoor Life,
8 Oct. 2025
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The entire property bursts with thickets of shaggy palm trees, enormous birds of paradise, and other tropical plants.—
Sarah Buder,
AFAR Media,
8 Oct. 2025
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During one expedition to what was once London, a young scientist, out gathering brushwood, unearths a small vacuum flask, inside which is a handwritten account of life in a small village called Beadle during the days leading up to the lunar catastrophe.—
Michael Dirda,
Washington Post,
2 Feb. 2023
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Bare dunes were planted with ‘brushwood and windbreaks, perpendicular to wind direction’ so that the dunes do not interfere with the canal system and irrigated farmlands.—
Azera Parveen Rahman,
Quartz,
27 Oct. 2022
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The strategy has helped to transform land that’s naturally an arid mix of coastal sage and chaparral and deserts into an economic and cultural powerhouse.—
Andre Mouchard,
Oc Register,
24 Aug. 2025
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It's been fueled by a mix of timber, chaparral and brush.—
Helen Rummel,
AZCentral.com,
14 Aug. 2025
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And inside the hedges was my tour photographer hiding in bushes that had not previously been there.—
Caroline Blair,
PEOPLE,
11 Oct. 2025
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The Rose Garden at MCC offers a beautiful display of around 9,000 rose bushes right outside the Mesa Community College building.—
Paige Moore,
AZCentral.com,
10 Oct. 2025
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Brake gently as needed - Brake normally if the vehicle has anti-lock brakes and pump brakes gently if in an older vehicle.—
NC Weather Bot,
Charlotte Observer,
8 Oct. 2025
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The street track’s layout is tight and twisty, one that’s hard on the brakes and leaves little room for error.—
Madeline Coleman,
New York Times,
7 Oct. 2025
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“Copse.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/copse. Accessed 12 Oct. 2025.
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