coppice

Meanings

Noun

• A grove of small growth; a thicket of brushwood; a wood cut at certain times for fuel or other purposes, typically managed to promote growth and ensure a reliable supply of timber. See copse.

Verb

• To manage (a wooded area) sustainably, as a coppice, by periodically cutting back woody plants to promote new growth.
• To sprout from the stump.

Related

Similar words

• copse

Origin

• From Middle English copies, from Old French copeiz ("a cut-over forest"), from presumed Vulgar Latin *colpaticium ("having the quality of being cut"), from *colpāre, from *colpus, from Latin colaphus ("a cuff, box on the ear"), from Ancient Greek κόλαφος ("a blow, slap").