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

“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

It was the regular opening of the canopies through the coppice regimes in the past that meant a lot of our woodlands had these great displays of spring flowers.

From BBC • Oct. 15, 2012

On the other side of the wall a thick coppice of trees grew, dark and high.

From The Four Corners of the World by Mason, A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley)