copse

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Pronunciation 1.2 Noun 1.2.1 Quotations 1.2.2 Related terms 1.2.3 See also 1.2.4 Translations 1.3 Anagrams

[edit] English

[edit] Pronunciation

• IPA: /kɒps/ SAMPA: /kQps/ (UK)
• Rhymes: -ɒps
• Homophones: cops

[edit] Noun

copse (plural copses)

1. A thicket of small trees or shrubs.

[edit] Quotations

• 1798 Wordsworth, William, Lines composed a few miles above Tintern Abbey, lines 9-15 (for syntax):

  The day is come when I again repose

  Here, under this dark sycamore, and view

  These plots of cottage-ground, these orchard tufts,

  Which at this season, with their unripe fruits,

  Are clad in one green hue, and lose themselves

  'Mid groves and copses.

• 1919 Firbank, Ronald, Valmouth, Duckworth (hardback edition), p19:

  Striking the highway beyond the little copse she skirted the dark iron palings enclosing Hare.

[edit] Related terms

• coppice

[edit] See also

• bush, bushes, forest, mott, orchard
• stand, thicket, wood, woods

[edit] Translations

[edit] Anagrams

• Alphagram: ceops
• copes
• scope