as in copse
a thick patch of shrubbery, small trees, or underbrush
the deer bounded off into the coppice
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Recent Examples of coppice
The two most straightforward of the trials will involve large-scale planting of trees and bioenergy crops, including Miscanthus grasses and coppice willow, reports Robert Lea for AZoCleanTech.
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Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 May 2021
Another strategy, called short rotation coppice, involves planting fast-growing trees such as willows and poplars in extremely dense rows.
—Eric Toensmeier, Scientific American, 1 Aug. 2020
Likewise green peas, which require space, time, and handsome hazel branches from one’s own woodland coppice in order to yield more than a handful.
—Charlotte Mendelson, The New Yorker, 24 Apr. 2020
Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 May 2021
Another strategy, called short rotation coppice, involves planting fast-growing trees such as willows and poplars in extremely dense rows.
—Eric Toensmeier, Scientific American, 1 Aug. 2020
Likewise green peas, which require space, time, and handsome hazel branches from one’s own woodland coppice in order to yield more than a handful.
—Charlotte Mendelson, The New Yorker, 24 Apr. 2020
Recent Examples of Synonyms for coppice
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After eight hours of hard fighting in a copse of trees near the hamlet of Kruglenkoe, the Ukrainians piled into armored trucks and sped back to the safety of the main Ukrainian line, half a mile to the east.—
David Axe,
Forbes,
22 Jan. 2025
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The castaway lifted his eyes slightly, barely making out the thick copse of palm trees dotting the horizon.—
Maureen Lee Lenker,
EW.com,
7 Sep. 2023
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Related Stories Fire rages in the forest one night when the village’s de facto guardian Maxim (Willem Dafoe), and his troupe of gun-toting child troglodytes trained in his image, hunt the Ochi (humans blame them for the disappearance of farm animals).—
Carlos Aguilar,
Variety,
27 Jan. 2025
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The controversial decision allows litigants to block restoration projects by requiring duplicative analysis at both the project level and the forest plan level any time new information emerges about an endangered or threatened species in that forest.—
Joel Thayer,
Newsweek,
27 Jan. 2025
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Western monarchs rely on overwintering groves along the California coast, some of which are now proposed to be designated as critical habitat for the species.—
Sharmeen Morrison,
The Mercury News,
12 Jan. 2025
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Sylmar is yet another Los Angeles, remote and rugged, far to the north in the San Fernando Valley, an arid swath of ranches and working-class suburbs once known for its groves of olive trees.—
Shawn Hubler,
New York Times,
10 Jan. 2025
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During one expedition to what was once London, a young scientist, out gathering brushwood, unearths a small vacuum flask, inside which is a handwritten account of life in a small village called Beadle during the days leading up to the lunar catastrophe.—
Michael Dirda,
Washington Post,
2 Feb. 2023
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Bare dunes were planted with ‘brushwood and windbreaks, perpendicular to wind direction’ so that the dunes do not interfere with the canal system and irrigated farmlands.—
Azera Parveen Rahman,
Quartz,
27 Oct. 2022
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Even a simple online purchase, thanks to an informational thicket of identification checks and to gamelike time pressure, seems to threaten entrapment.—
Richard Brody,
The New Yorker,
29 Jan. 2025
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Here and there are thickets of flush summer trees, but rare is the spot of shade to be found in the natural landscape.—
Barrett Swanson,
Harper's Magazine,
2 Jan. 2025
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Some of it is the hybrid regeneration portion of the pedal stroke, but having to readjust brake pressure mid stop is always dicey.—
Jonathan Granoff,
Newsweek,
29 Jan. 2025
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Bottom line: There are no realistic plans to put the brakes on tax season.—
Kelly Phillips Erb,
Forbes,
28 Jan. 2025
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Residents of Marin, and the Bay Area at large, are understandably big fans of the diverse natural landscapes of the coast ranges: forests and woodlands, savannas and marshes, ocean coast and chaparral.—
Jack Gedney,
The Mercury News,
27 Jan. 2025
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The crew spread out, and sawyers began to cut the chaparral with their saws.—
M. R. O’Connor,
The New Yorker,
27 Jan. 2025
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Sarah wounds Cody with a corkscrew and reaches Frida in the woods just in time to kill the bodyguard with a large rock.—
Samantha Stutsman,
People.com,
1 Feb. 2025
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The wicker details and sleek wood coffee table make both pieces look ultra classic, but they’re also designed with wear and tear in mind.—
Carly Totten,
Better Homes & Gardens,
31 Jan. 2025
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“Coppice.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/coppice. Accessed 6 Feb. 2025.
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