coppice
/ˈkɑpɪs/
noun
- A small area of trees or bushes that are cut regularly to encourage new growth.
- The farmer managed a coppice of hazel trees for making baskets.
- They walked through a coppice of young oak trees.
- Birds nested in the dense coppice near the river.
verb
- To cut back trees or bushes to ground level so that they grow new shoots.
- If you coppice the hazel, it will produce straight stems for fencing.
- They plan to coppice the woodland to provide firewood for the village.
- The foresters coppice the willow trees every few years to harvest the branches.
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