copse

[ kops ]

/ kɒps /

a thicket of small trees or bushes; a small wood.

Also coppice.

Origin of copse

First recorded in 1570–80; alteration of coppice

Back down along the Orontes, very early the day before, my friend dropped me off on a dirt track by a copse of trees.

Life on the Syrian Border |Melik Kaylan |July 1, 2011 |DAILY BEAST
Emlyn, my darling, my darling, do you remember how we kissed in the copse by the river?

The Lady Of Blossholme |H. Rider Haggard
Inside the copse the doves were cooing, squirrels leaping, the cuckoo crying, as the mite went along.

Golden Moments |Anonymous
I made this discovery in a spinney, or copse, near a small tarn some half mile to the eastward of Fernbridge's precincts.

Fibble, D. D. |Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb

Occasionally we passed a copse of oak, or cluster of saplings.

Scenes and Adventures in the Semi-Alpine Region of the Ozark Mountains of Missouri and Arkansas |Henry Rowe Schoolcraft
The winter corn is green already, and there is grass in the copse.

Letters of Anton Chekhov |Anton Chekhov

copse

/ (kɒps) /

another word for coppice (def. 1)

C16: by shortening from coppice