Definition of "coppice" [cop•pice]

• 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. (noun)

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• "While in coppice loud shrilleth and trilleth Hazár,"
• "On one side of the coppice was a meadow which belonged to a fisherman named"
• "The neighbourhood, however, is interesting enough on account of the curious aqueducts for supplying the town with water, and the Mercede forest which, in D'Urville's opinion, might more justly be called a coppice, for it contains nothing but shrubs and ferns."