Copse

Pronunciation

 * Homophones: cops
 * Homophones: cops
 * Homophones: cops

Noun

 * 1) A thicket of small trees or shrubs.
 * 2) * 1798 Wordsworth, William, Lines composed a few miles above Tintern Abbey, lines 9-15 (for syntax):
 * 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,
 * Are clad in one green hue, and lose themselves
 * 'Mid groves and copses.
 * 1) * 1919 Firbank, Ronald, Valmouth, Duckworth (hardback edition), p19:
 * Striking the highway beyond the little copse she skirted the dark iron palings enclosing Hare.

Related terms

 * coppice

Adjectives
woven; thick; rambling; summer; luxuriant.

Thesaurus
batch, bocage, boscage, bosk, bosket, brake, bunch, canebrake, ceja, chamisal, chaparral, clump, cluster, coppice, copsewood, covert, crop, frith, group, grouping, groupment, grove, hassock, holt, hurst, knot, lot, mess, motte, orchard, shaw, shock, slew, spinney, stook, thicket, thickset, tope, tuft, tussock, wisp, wood lot, woodlet

Translations

 * Finnish: vesakko
 * French: taillis, boqueteau
 * Italian:, macchia, fratta
 * Norwegian: skogholt
 * Old English:


 * Polish: zagajnik
 * Romanian: crâng, dumbravă, pădure măruntă, subarboret, tufiș de arbuști
 * Russian: ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: preasarlach, frith-choille

Anagrams

 * copes
 * scope