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    COPPICE

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    A dense growth of bushesplay

    Synonyms:

    brush; brushwood; coppice; copse; thicket

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

    Hypernyms ("coppice" is a kind of...):

    botany; flora; vegetation (all the plant life in a particular region or period)

    Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "coppice"):

    brake (an area thickly overgrown usually with one kind of plant)

    canebrake (a dense growth of cane (especially giant cane))

    spinney (a copse that shelters game)

    underbrush; undergrowth; underwood (the brush (small trees and bushes and ferns etc.) growing beneath taller trees in a wood or forest)

     II. (verb) 

    Sense 1

    Present simple (first person singular and plural, second person singular and plural, third person plural) of the verb coppice

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