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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

COPSE, n. [See Coppice.]
COPSE, v.t. To preserve underwoods.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a dense growth of bushes [syn: brush, brushwood, coppice, copse, thicket]

Merriam Webster's

noun Etymology: by alteration Date: 1578 coppice 1

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. 1 = COPPICE. 2 (in general use) a small wood. Derivatives: copsy adj. Etymology: shortened f. COPPICE

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Copse Copse, v. t. 1. To trim or cut; -- said of small trees, brushwood, tufts of grass, etc. --Halliwell. 2. To plant and preserve, as a copse. --Swift.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Copse Copse, n. [Contr. from coppice.] A wood of small growth; a thicket of brushwood. See Coppice. Near yonder copse where once the garden smiled. --Goldsmith.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(copses) A copse is a small group of trees growing very close to each other. ...a little copse of fir trees. N-COUNT

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. Grove (of small trees or shrubs), thicket, coppice.

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