'Copse' definitions:
Definition of 'copse'
(from WordNet)
Definition of 'Copse'
From: GCIDE
- Copse \Copse\, v. t.
- 1. To trim or cut; -- said of small trees, brushwood, tufts of grass, etc. --Halliwell. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To plant and preserve, as a copse. --Swift. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Copse'
From: GCIDE
- Copse \Copse\, n. [Contr. from coppice.] A wood of small growth; a thicket of brushwood. See Coppice. [1913 Webster]
- Near yonder copse where once the garden smiled. --Goldsmith. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'copse'
From: Moby 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