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
"What is in it, I wonder?" and he tried to detach it: but in passing through the coppice it had become inextricably entangled in his strap and buckle.
From The Cloister and the Hearth A Tale of the Middle Ages by Charles Reade
