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

Manager Andrew Poad previously said the stump was "healthy" and they may be able to coppice the tree, where new shoots grow from the trunk's base.

From BBC • Oct. 1, 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

But already over the green coppice bare grey hillsides have come in sight.

From Naples Past and Present by Norway, Arthur H.