as in copse
a thick patch of shrubbery, small trees, or underbrush
the deer bounded off into the coppice
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Recent Examples of coppice
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.
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Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 May 2021
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
Likewise green peas, which require space, time, and handsome hazel branches from one’s own woodland coppice in order to yield more than a handful.
—Charlotte Mendelson, The New Yorker, 24 Apr. 2020
Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 May 2021
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
Likewise green peas, which require space, time, and handsome hazel branches from one’s own woodland coppice in order to yield more than a handful.
—Charlotte Mendelson, The New Yorker, 24 Apr. 2020
Recent Examples of Synonyms for coppice
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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.—
The Editorial Board,
Chicago Tribune,
11 Aug. 2025
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She had been dragged and pushed by two men into a copse on Hampstead Heath.—
Sarah Beckwith,
New Yorker,
26 May 2025
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Access the boardwalk from either end using paths that wind through mangrove forests before opening to the 10-foot-wide boardwalk and observation deck.—
Tara Massouleh McCay,
Southern Living,
7 Aug. 2025
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These kelp forests help provide food and habitats for a wide variety of marine life, including fish, sea otters and seals, per the AP.—
Madison E. Goldberg,
People.com,
7 Aug. 2025
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And hidden away in a centuries-old pine grove, Hotel Pineta is an oasis for larger families, with double and triple rooms and an enticing, lagoon-style pool that meanders through the lush environs.—
Alexandra Kirkman,
Forbes.com,
15 Aug. 2025
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Droughts in Thailand and India boosted global sugar prices, while parched Spanish olive groves led to two years of soaring olive-oil prices.—
Mark Gongloff,
Mercury News,
13 Aug. 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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Behind him stands a little girl, less than half his size, wearing a red dress, a red bow poking from the thicket of her heavy black hair.—
Daniel Alarcón,
New Yorker,
30 June 2025
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Prospective buyers from these countries face a patent thicket, where a single drug may be covered by hundreds of patents.—
Nahim Bin Zahur,
The Conversation,
17 June 2025
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The decision follows a lengthy period of back-and-forth between the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and the self-driving car developer, which announced its driverless car designed without steering wheels or brake pedals in 2022.—
Bloomberg,
Mercury News,
7 Aug. 2025
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That day, troopers responded to the report of an individual who was unconscious in a vehicle in a parking lot with their foot on the brake and the vehicle in drive.—
Justin Muszynski,
Hartford Courant,
6 Aug. 2025
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The Pacific Palisades Fire, the largest of the state’s current wildfires, for example, began as a brushfire and spread through dense chaparral, a shrubland plant community common to the state.—
Jeff Cercone,
Austin American Statesman,
7 Jan. 2025
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In Arizona, wildfires in shrublands or chaparral can be fueled by invasive grasses, like cheat grass.—
John Leos,
AZCentral.com,
15 July 2025
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However, most rooms retain original elements that range from frescos and wood ceilings to original walls.—
Carley Rojas Ávila,
Forbes.com,
15 Aug. 2025
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Toy weapons: Plastic, wood, and foam toy weapons are allowed.—
Jenna Prestininzi,
Freep.com,
14 Aug. 2025
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“Coppice.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/coppice. Accessed 20 Aug. 2025.
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