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Definition of Coppice
1. Noun. A dense growth of bushes.
Generic synonyms: Botany, Flora, Vegetation
Specialized synonyms: Brake, Canebrake, Spinney, Underbrush, Undergrowth, Underwood
Derivative terms: Brushy
Definition of Coppice
1. n. A grove of small growth; a thicket of brushwood; a wood cut at certain times for fuel or other purposes. See Copse.
2. v. t. To cause to grow in the form of a coppice; to cut back (as young timber) so as to produce shoots from stools or roots.
Definition of Coppice
1. Noun. A grove of small growth; a thicket of brushwood; a wood cut at certain times for fuel or other purposes, typically managed to promote growth and ensure a reliable supply of timber. See copse. ¹
2. Verb. To manage a wooded area sustainably, as a coppice. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Coppice
1. to cause to grow in the form of a coppice (a thicket) [v -PICED, -PICING, -PICES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Coppice
Literary usage of Coppice
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Practice of Silviculture, with Particular Reference to Its Application by Ralph Chipman Hawley (1921)
"CHAPTER VIII THE coppice WITH STANDARDS METHOD Definition. — "A method of
reproduction in which seedling trees or selected sprouts (standards) are ..."
2. Forestry in New England: A Handbook of Eastern Forest Management by Ralph Chipman Hawley, Austin Foster Hawes (1912)
"There already exists a form of forest which may be considered as a transition
stage between coppice and high forest and which when fashioned by the science ..."
3. Manual of Forestry by William Schlich (1904)
"The higher the rotation, the more nearly does coppice wood approach the ...
The system of coppice with standards is iv combination of the following two ..."
4. The Bahama Islands by George Burbank Shattuck, Geographical Society of Baltimore (1905)
"coppice FORMATIONS.—As in the case of the pine-barrens, the coppice growth of
New Providence may be divided into two rather distinct formations—the ..."
5. The Forester: A Practical Treatise on British Forestry and Arboriculture for by John Nisbet (1905)
"Conversion of coppice and Copse into Highwood is often desirable. Good saplings
from seed or suckers, and the best-grown stool-shoots, should be selected at ..."
6. The Forester: A Practical Treatise on the Planting, Rearing, and General by James Brown (1861)
"The raising of coppice plantations is, of all others, the most simple, ...
Excepting oak coppice, this sort of forest cropping is seldom cultivated in ..."
7. Forestry Quarterly by New York State College of Forestry (1908)
"CONVERSION OF coppice UNDER STANDARDS TO HIGH FORESTS IN EASTERN FRANCE. AF HAWES.
Wherever in a densely populated country tree species predominate which ..."
8. The Forester: A Practical Treatise on Planting and Tending of Forest Trees by James Brown (1894)
"In order to renew old and worn-out coppice plantations, ... The Value of
coppice-Crops must in all cases depend greatly on the nature of the soil and ..."
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