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copse

noun
/kɒps/

Etymology

1578, from coppice, by contraction, originally meaning “small wood grown for purposes of periodic cutting”.

Definitions

  1. A coppice

    A coppice: an area of woodland managed by coppicing (periodic cutting near stump level).

  2. Any thicket of small trees or shrubs, coppiced or not.

    • 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.

  3. Any woodland or woodlot.

  4. ›+ 2 more definitions

    1. To trim or cut.

    2. To plant and preserve.

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Derived

copselike, copsewood, copsy

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at copse. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01copse02woodlot03wood04forested05forest06undergrowth07bushes08bush09thicket

A definitional loop anchored at copse. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at copse

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

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