coppice
121grove — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. thicket, coppice, copse. See vegetable. II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. woods, stand, spinney, copse; see forest . III (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) n. stand, orchard, wood, copse, coppice, thicket, boscage …
122copse — I (Roget s IV) n. Syn. thicket, brushwood, scrub, coppice; see brush 4 , hedge . II (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) n. thicket, grove, wood, scrub, coppice, boscage …
123copse — [kɔps US ka:ps] n also coppice [Date: 1500 1600; Origin: coppice copse (14 21 centuries), from Old French copeiz, from couper to cut ( COPE1); because a copse is formed by regular cutting] a group of trees or bushes growing close together …
124cope — There are two distinct words cope in English. The now more familiar one, ‘deal with’ [14], comes from Old French coper, and originally meant ‘hit, punch’. The Old French verb was a derivative of the noun cop ‘blow’, which in turn was a variant of …
125coupé — [19] Coupé is the past participle of the French verb couper ‘cut’, and it was originally applied in the early 19th century to a type of four wheeled covered carriage (in full a carrosse coupé ‘cut off carriage’). The notion behind the term is a… …
126zibar — A small, low relief sand dune that lacks discernible slip faces and commonly occurs on sand sheets, in interdune areas, or in corridors between larger dunes. Zibar spacing can range from 50 to 400 m with local relief of less than 10 m. Unlike… …
127copse — 1570s, small wood grown for purposes of periodic cutting, contraction of COPPICE (Cf. coppice) …
128copse — [[t]kɒps[/t]] also coppice n. a thicket of small trees or bushes; a small wood • Etymology: 1570–80; alter. of coppice …
