coppice (noun)

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• coppice — ► NOUN ▪ an area of woodland in which the trees or shrubs are periodically cut back to ground level to stimulate growth and provide wood. ► VERB ▪ cut back (a tree or shrub) in this way. ORIGIN Old French copeiz, from Greek kolaphus a blow with… …   English terms dictionary

• coppice — noun an area of woodland in which the trees or shrubs are periodically cut back to ground level to stimulate growth and provide wood. verb cut back (a tree or shrub) in this way. Origin ME: from OFr. copeiz, based on med. L. colpus (see cope1);… …   English new terms dictionary

• coppice oak — noun : bark from roots of the kermes oak …   Useful english dictionary

• coppice shoot — noun : a young tree that has grown from a sucker and not from seed …   Useful english dictionary

• coppice — I UK [ˈkɒpɪs] / US [ˈkɑpɪs] verb [transitive] Word forms coppice : present tense I/you/we/they coppice he/she/it coppices present participle coppicing past tense coppiced past participle coppiced to cut trees regularly to ground level in order to …   English dictionary

• coppice — I. noun Etymology: Middle English copies cutover area overgrown with brush, from Middle French copeis, from Old French, from Vulgar Latin *colpaticium, from *colpare to cut, from Late Latin colpus blow more at cope Date: 1534 1. a thicket, grove …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• coppice — 1. noun A grove of small growth; a thicket of brushwood; a wood cut at certain times for fuel or other purposes, typically managed to promote growth and ensure a reliable supply of timber. See copse. It was also enacted that all coppices or… …   Wiktionary

• coppice — [14] The notion underlying coppice is of ‘cutting’. Its ultimate source is the Greek noun kólaphos ‘blow’, which passed via Latin colaphus into medieval Latin as colpus (source of English cope and coup). From colpus was derived a verb colpāre… …   The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

• coppice — [14] The notion underlying coppice is of ‘cutting’. Its ultimate source is the Greek noun kólaphos ‘blow’, which passed via Latin colaphus into medieval Latin as colpus (source of English cope and coup). From colpus was derived a verb colpāre… …   Word origins

• coppice — /ˈkɒpəs / (say kopuhs) noun Also, copse. 1. Chiefly British a wood, thicket, or plantation of small trees or bushes. –verb (t) 2. to cut down (a tree) near the base so as to encourage numerous slender trunks to regenerate from the root stock;… …  

• Coppicing — Coppice redirects here. For the locality in Oldham, see Coppice, Greater Manchester. For Bahamian coppice forests, see Bahamian dry forests. A recently coppiced alder stool in Hampshire …   Wikipedia