n. A thicket or grove of small trees or shrubs, especially one maintained by periodic cutting or pruning to encourage suckering, as in the cultivation of cinnamon trees for their bark. v. cop·piced, cop·pic·ing, cop·pic·es v.tr. To cut or prune (a tree) in making or maintaining a coppice. v.intr. To grow as a coppice after cutting. Used of trees. [Old French copeiz; see COPSE.] |
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