coppice
Example Sentences
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"For this reason, hazel was often very common in historical coppice woodlands."
From Science Daily ● Nov. 14, 2023
National Trust general manager Andrew Poad told BBC Breakfast the stump was "healthy" and they might be able to coppice the tree, where new shoots grow from the base of a trunk.
From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2023
“They are molting now, buried in the mud out there,” Douglas said, gesturing toward the marshy coppice that crowds both sides of the two-lane Queen’s Highway, the major north-south road on Andros.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 14, 2015
I leant upon a coppice gate When Frost was spectre-gray, And Winter's dregs made desolate The weakening eye of day.
From Slate ● Jan. 1, 2013
We lay that night in a coppice on the left bank of the river.
From My Lady Rotha A Romance by Stanley J. Weyman
