as in grove
a thick patch of shrubbery, small trees, or underbrush
a small copse of trees shaded the back of the house
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Recent Examples of copse
The path climbs past copses of mountain hemlocks and red firs, and through alpine meadows dotted with wildflowers in the spring and summer.
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Eric Rosen, Travel + Leisure, 10 Apr. 2023
Smoke envelops a Russian bunker hit by the Ukrainians; the Buhay, hiding near a copse, is somehow spared from bombardment by enemy forces.
—Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 10 Apr. 2023
NJ Agwuna’s lively direction fit neatly into Peter J. Davison’s festival unit set—a copse of tree trunks at stage right, an array of colored lightbulbs above—and Christelle Matou’s handsome, sculptural costumes made a clear visual statement.
—Heidi Waleson, WSJ, 18 Aug. 2021
The hulking mass of the Hagia Sophia, the sixth-century church that became the enduring symbol of Christendom, seemed like a basilica to me again, surrounded by a copse of slim, tapered minarets.
—New York Times, 12 May 2022
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Eric Rosen, Travel + Leisure, 10 Apr. 2023
Smoke envelops a Russian bunker hit by the Ukrainians; the Buhay, hiding near a copse, is somehow spared from bombardment by enemy forces.
—Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 10 Apr. 2023
NJ Agwuna’s lively direction fit neatly into Peter J. Davison’s festival unit set—a copse of tree trunks at stage right, an array of colored lightbulbs above—and Christelle Matou’s handsome, sculptural costumes made a clear visual statement.
—Heidi Waleson, WSJ, 18 Aug. 2021
The hulking mass of the Hagia Sophia, the sixth-century church that became the enduring symbol of Christendom, seemed like a basilica to me again, surrounded by a copse of slim, tapered minarets.
—New York Times, 12 May 2022
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Celebrity nail artist Queenie Nguyen gives these bright copper nails indents and groves for a unique way to dress them up.Audrey Noble, Vogue, 19 Dec. 2024
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The Woodland Hills display winds through an eight-block cluster of streets that were home to walnut groves when the tradition began in the early 1950s.Francine Kiefer, The Christian Science Monitor, 19 Dec. 2024
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The team is currently modeling at the level of the woodland stand, a unit of forest made up of a relatively uniform group of trees, to assess the optimal distance between trees.Alexa Phillips, WIRED, 16 Dec. 2024
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Sitting in ancient Cumbria—the Lake District is a mighty UNESCO World Heritage Site drawing over 18 million visitors each year, home to the largest national park in England, covering over 880 square miles of terrain with towering mountains, serene lakes, and lush forests.Lewis Nunn, Forbes, 16 Dec. 2024
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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.Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 May 2021
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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
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This native shrub ranges from five to 15 feet high and will slowly form thickets if allowed.Erica Browne Grivas, Better Homes & Gardens, 3 Dec. 2024
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Across the garden, Corley, in headphones, held a professional recording device up to another thicket of reeds.Oren Peleg, The New Yorker, 26 Aug. 2024
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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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During these quieter times, the native chaparral and vegetation would slowly recover over the course of years.Noah Haggerty, Los Angeles Times, 14 Dec. 2024
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Here's what to do if that happens, or in any scary wildlife encounter Black bears are the only species of bear found in Arizona, and they can be found in forests, chaparral and desert riparian areas.John Leos, The Arizona Republic, 2 Nov. 2024
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Another legend claims that the Virgin Mary changed the color of rosemary flowers from white to blue after draping her blue cloak over a white-blossomed bush.Nina Foster, JSTOR Daily, 20 Dec. 2024
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One member of our group has a habit of squatting in the river to urinate instead of going behind a bush and dropping her drawers.Judith Martin, The Mercury News, 11 Dec. 2024
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Tap the brakes, lightly, when necessary to self-correct out of the skid.Jade Jackson, The Indianapolis Star, 20 Dec. 2024
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If the first Trump tariffs in 2018 through 2019 are a guide, those importers could slam on the brakes in the coming months, Seroka said.Lisa Baertlein, USA TODAY, 18 Dec. 2024
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“Copse.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/copse. Accessed 30 Dec. 2024.
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