From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary EnglishRelated topics: Naturecopsecopse /kɒps $ kɑːps/ (also coppice) noun [countable]DNa group of trees or bushes growing close together► see thesaurus at forestExamples from the Corpuscopse• Some faces shone white in the moonlight that was coming up behind a copse.• Bear left, across the field to a gate in the opposite left hand corner by a copse.• They were in the fifth field near a copse of native trees when the incidentoccurred.• Thus elm trees clone themselves to form entirecopses, and we cloned Dolly from culturedmammaryglandcells.• The keenenvironmentalist, whose tour stopped off at Middlesbrough last week, visited a rejuvenatedcopse in Southwood, Coulby Newham.• Below the copse a track was bordered with grasslandrich in flowering plants.• They passed the copse and the lights of a large Elizabethan house came into view.Origincopse(1500-1600)coppice“copse”((14-21 centuries)), from Old Frenchcopeiz, from couper“to cut” ( → COPE1); because a copse is formed by regular cutting
