COPPICE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does coppice mean? 

• COPPICE (noun)
  The noun COPPICE has 1 sense:

1. a dense growth of bushes

  Familiarity information: COPPICE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COPPICE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A dense growth of bushes

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

brush; brushwood; coppice; copse; thicket

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)

 Context examples 

They determined on walking round Beechen Cliff, that noble hill whose beautiful verdure and hanging coppice render it so striking an object from almost every opening in Bath.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)