Thesaurus results for COPPICES

coppices

noun

plural of coppice

as in bushes

a thick patch of shrubbery, small trees, or underbrush the deer bounded off into the coppice

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The city of Aspen, famously home to billions of dollars in real estate, is surrounded by dense forests — like an expensive tinderbox with few evacuation routes for residents and visitors.

— Halle Zander, NPR, 10 Nov. 2026
Research has shown that up to one third of insects found in forests and woodlands benefit from deadwood, either by feeding on it or by feeding on the insects that do.

— Pamm Cooper, Hartford Courant, 8 Nov. 2026

Definition of forests

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The vegetation is mostly grassland, which shines with an almost alien-green intensity in the spring, dotted with copses of twisted oak and buckeye trees.

— John Metcalfe, Mercury News, 4 May 2026
Walk in forests where dragonflies buzz and orchids bloom in secret copses.

— Lydia Bell, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 Jan. 2026

Definition of copses

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Then, just nine months later, came the collision Wednesday morning that turned a sleepy stretch of rail lined by olive groves near the village of Urda into a scene of carnage.

— Joseph Wilson, Los Angeles Times, 29 Oct. 2026
The collision Wednesday morning that turned a sleepy stretch of rail lined by olive groves into a scene of carnage came just four weeks before the country votes in a national election.

— ABC News, ABC News, 29 Oct. 2026

Definition of groves

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Slightly west, Sultan-Epe lies beside a deep canyon, where a stream threads through thickets of mulberry, buckthorn, blackberry, and wild herbs—another improbable pocket of green in one of Kazakhstan’s driest regions.

— Avantika Chaturvedi, Architectural Digest, 5 Nov. 2026
The original computers were essentially thickets of light bulbs.

— Gideon Lewis-Kraus, New Yorker, 19 Oct. 2026

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