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COPPICE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Synonyms:
brush; brushwood; coppice; copse; thicket
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("coppice" is a kind of...):
botany; flora; vegetation (all the plant life in a particular region or period)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "coppice"):
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)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Present simple (first person singular and plural, second person singular and plural, third person plural) of the verb coppice