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Coppice
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Coppice
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1.
a thicket or dense growth of small trees or bushes, esp one regularly trimmed back to stumps so that a continual supply of small poles and firewood is obtained
verb
2. (transitive)
to trim back (trees or bushes) to form a coppice
3. (intransitive)
to form a coppice
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Coppice
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copse
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Coppice
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A thicket or grove of small trees or shrubs, especially one maintained by periodic cutting or pruning to encourage suckering, as in the cultivation of cinnamon trees for their bark.
v. cop·piced, cop·pic·ing, cop·pic·es
v.tr.
To cut or prune (a tree) in making or maintaining a coppice.
v.intr.
To grow as a coppice after cutting. Used of trees.
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