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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Noun

New satellite missions and increasingly sophisticated mapping techniques continue improving scientists’ understanding of global forests every year.

— Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 14 July 2026
Over 800 wildfires are burning through forests in Canada, creating heavy smoke that could potentially affect millions of Americans this week.

— Kenton Gewecke, ABC News, 14 July 2026

Definition of forests

Noun

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

Noun

Another attendee, 28-year-old Jerard Jackson, was reported missing after the festival, July 29, and his body was later found in the woods nearby.

— Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 14 July 2026
The route winds slowly uphill through thick woods, then reaches the iconic Horseshoe Curve, where the tracks bend sharply around the mountainside in a massive horseshoe shape.

— Abby Price, Travel + Leisure, 14 July 2026

Definition of woods

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But all of it—the estate, the vineyards, the olive groves, the food, and the pace—is part of the same story.

— Tia Lovisa Moreira, Travel + Leisure, 2 July 2026
Known as Villa Uglione, the estate sits high on a hill near the quiet villages of Tavarnelle Val di Pesa and Barberino Val d’Elsa, surrounded by rolling vineyards and olive groves.

— Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 1 July 2026

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By Todd Woody, Bloomberg On a warm summer morning, two fire officials navigate an SUV along a narrow road that switchbacks high into the hills above the town of Fairfax, California, where thickets of trees conceal hundreds of homes.

— Bloomberg, Mercury News, 8 July 2026
Only a depression in the ground remains at the Ingalls Dugout Site, but eagle-eyed visitors can still spot the spring, tablelands, thickets of plum trees, and other landmarksr described in the book of the same name.

— Alicia Underlee Nelson, Midwest Living, 22 June 2026

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