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COPPICE

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

A dense growth of bushes

Synonyms:

brush; brushwood; coppice; copse; thicket

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("coppice" is a kind of...):

botany; flora; vegetation (all the plant life in a particular region or period)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "coppice"):

brake (an area thickly overgrown usually with one kind of plant)

canebrake (a dense growth of cane (especially giant cane))

spinney (a copse that shelters game)

underbrush; undergrowth; underwood (the brush (small trees and bushes and ferns etc.) growing beneath taller trees in a wood or forest)

 II. (verb) 

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Present simple (first person singular and plural, second person singular and plural, third person plural) of the verb coppice

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