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copse

\KOPS\ , noun:
1.A thicket or grove of small trees.
名词 n.
1.小灌木林,杂树林

Quotes:
A lit window shone from between the trees below them, then vanished again as the car dipped over a ditch and passed through a copse.
~Kate Bingham, Mummy's Legs
Among the mountains, hills, streams, waterfalls, and little copses, the child rejoiced in "savouring the delights of freedom" that stimulated his boyish dreams and reveries.
~Suheil Bushrui and Joe Jenkins, Kahlil Gibran: Man and Poet
They sang freely in the copses and thickets round Bohain, and in the ruins of the mediaeval castle where he played as a boy.
~Hilary Spurling, The Unknown Matisse

Origin:
Copse derives from Old French copeiz, "a thicket for cutting," from coper, couper, "to cut." It is related to coupon, at root "the part that is cut off."

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