Coppice Definition
kŏpĭs
coppices
noun
coppices
Webster's New World
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.
American Heritage
verb
To cut or prune (a tree) in making or maintaining a coppice.
American Heritage
To grow as a coppice after cutting. Used of trees.
American Heritage
Other Word Forms of Coppice
Noun
Singular:
coppice
Plural:
coppicesOrigin of Coppice
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From Old French copeiz (“a cut-over forest”), from presumed Late Latin *colpaticium (“having the quality of being cut”), from *colpare (“to cut, strike”), from Medieval Latin colpus (“a blow”), from Vulgar Latin colapus, from Latin colaphus (“a cuff, box on the ear”), from Ancient Greek κόλαφος (kolaphos).
From Wiktionary
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Old French copeiz copse
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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