Definitions
a dense growth of bushes
Word origin
1578, from coppice, by contraction, originally meaning “small wood grown for purposes of periodic cutting”.
Used in a sentence
“Agrimonie groweth in places not tylled, in rough stone mountaynes, in hedges and Copses, and by waysides.”
“The day is come when I again repose Here, under this dark sycamore, and view These plots of cottage-ground, these orchard tufts, Which at this season, with their unripe fruits, Among the woods and copses lose themselves,”
“Three thundercloven thrones of oldest snow, / Stood sunsetflushed: and, dewed with showery drops, / Upclomb the shadowy pine above the woven copse.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Small wooded area”5 letters
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