coppice

/ˈkɑpəs/
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Other forms: coppices

Definitions of coppice
  1. noun
    a dense growth of bushes
    synonyms: brush, brushwood, copse, thicket
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    brake
    an area thickly overgrown usually with one kind of plant
    canebrake
    a dense growth of cane (especially giant cane)
    spinney
    a copse that shelters game
    underbrush, undergrowth, underwood
    the brush (small trees and bushes and ferns etc.) growing beneath taller trees in a wood or forest
    ground cover, groundcover
    small plants other than saplings growing on a forest floor
    type of:
    botany, flora, vegetation
    all the plant life in a particular region or period
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