COPSE
What does "COPSE" mean?
A small group or thicket of trees and shrubs.
Meanings
- A small wood or thicket, often one grown for periodic cutting. A blackbird sang from the copse at the field's edge.
Did you know?
- A 'copse' is a contraction of 'coppice' - woodland deliberately cut to the stump so it regrows, a renewable-timber method used in Britain for centuries before the word shortened.
Word origin
A contraction of 'coppice,' from Old French 'copeiz' (a cut-over wood), from Latin 'colpus' (a blow, a cut) - referring to woodland cut back to encourage regrowth.
Remember it
COPSE is a 'COP' keeping watch over a small stand of trees - and it's just 'coppice' with the middle clipped out.
A little poem
Cut to the stump once,
the copse answers with green shoots -
loss it has rehearsed.
haiku
Wordplay
- Why did the small wood never panic when it was cut down? As a copse, it had a standing arrangement to come back.
What it teaches
Some things are pruned not to end them but to make them grow back stronger.
Quick facts
What does COPSE mean?
A small group or thicket of trees and shrubs.
Is COPSE a valid word?
Yes — COPSE is one of the answer words in Wordul, the daily word game.
How many letters is COPSE?
COPSE has 5 letters and 1 syllable.
Where does COPSE come from?
A contraction of 'coppice,' from Old French 'copeiz' (a cut-over wood), from Latin 'colpus' (a blow, a cut) - referring to woodland cut back to encourage regrowth.
What can COPSE teach us?
Some things are pruned not to end them but to make them grow back stronger.
How players do
Be the first to solve it.