COPPICE | definition in the Cambridge English Dictionary

Meaning of coppice in English

(Definition of coppice from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

Examples of coppice

coppice
Only four felt that coppices in the free-range area providing shelter to the chickens should be mandatory, e.g., through national legislation or certification scheme requirements.
Since sal trees, which are dominant species, have the ability to coppice, natural regeneration is the common method of improving natural forest conditions.
In a few moments they perceived, on the edge of the coppice, a human form that was dragging itself along and groaning piteously.
The captain could not yet discern the dark coppice, but it could not be more than two hundred feet distant.
The modern mood prefers a lane to a winding avenue, and an old orchard or stony pasture to a lawn decorated with coppices.
According to official classification, these public forests are to the extent of 5.3 million acres high forest, 3 million coppice, the balance brushwoods.
A rabbit rustled through the coppice, and a jay screeched in the distant glade.
At the edge of the little coppice we stopped again abruptly.
On and on they went, through a small coppice of pines, while the light-hearted laugh rang on the breeze behind them.
They so longed to put undebatable ground behind them and really be where the distant coppice might be a curtain to the enemy!
They came to a coppice of elms, grown thick with brambles and cluttered with deadwood.
Crouching behind hedges, lingering in coppices, peeping through thickets, two persistent trackers had pursued the unconscious quarry.
The treatment of the coppice and methods of sowing and planting were well understood in spite of the lack of natural sciences.
They use the timber also, and the various ages of coppice growth in many ways.
The horsemen, accompanied by outriders, and well armed, galloped beside the carriage, while the pack of hounds bayed joyously in the coppices.
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Translations of coppice

in Chinese (Traditional)
(尤指定期砍伐的)矮林,萌生林, 修剪(樹木或灌木)使成爲萌生林…
in Chinese (Simplified)
(尤指定期砍伐的)矮林,萌生林, 修剪(树木或灌木)使成为萌生林…
in Spanish
bosquecillo maderero, talar…
in Portuguese
bosque talhado, talhar…
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