copses in English

noun
1
a small group of trees.
As one approaches the copse of trees at the entrance to Tobernalt, one usually stands still by a large rock to look around in the shady dim light.
synonyms:thicketgrovewoodcoppicestandbushwoodlotbrakebrushhurstholtboscage
noun

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1. What does Copses mean? Plural form of Copse

2. Synonyms for Coppices include thickets, copses, coverts, brakes, brushwood, boscage, woodland, groves, chaparrals and underwoods

3. The countryside was his enemy: uncouth heather and highwayman copses kept taking his jewel and hiding it.

4. It's a kind of Hudson River school landscape featuring open spaces of low grasses interspersed with copses of trees.

5. 30 Thus elm trees clone themselves to form entire copses, and we cloned Dolly from cultured mammary gland cells.

6. 29 Thus elm trees clone themselves to form entire copses, and we cloned Dolly from cultured mammary gland cells.

7. Copses of beech and alder appeared, straggling along the banks with their roots lost in a tangle of briars and bracken.

8. 29 Copses of beech and alder appeared, straggling along the banks with their roots lost in a tangle of briars and bracken.

9. Copse How many people would go to this encyclopaedia and look up 'globalisation,' 'capacity building,' 'low level flight training,' or even 'Copse'? From the Cambridge English Corpus Our bluebell groves and our chestnut Copses …

10. ‘One of the earliest is the winter Aconite Eranthis hymalis, whose little rounded yellow flowers start appearing shortly after New Year.’ ‘Here there's a nice 1898 Arts and Crafts style house, sheltered by beech copses with kettle nest boxes and carpeted yellow by winter Aconites.’

11. Fear made her legs move faster, her breath coming in shallow pants as she flat out sprinted through the forest, uncaring as she dived through the coarsest bushes, and the Brambliest copses to try and throw off the sounds of pounding feet she could hear behind her.