Definizione monolingua

copse

copse (third-person singular simple present copses, present participle copsing, simple past and past participle copsed)

1. (transitive, horticulture) To trim or cut.
2. (transitive, horticulture) To plant and preserve.

copse (plural copses)

1. A thicket of small trees or shrubs.
   • 1798, William Wordsworth, Lines composed a few miles above Tintern Abbey, lines 9–15 (for syntax):

     The day is come when I again repose

     Here, under this dark sycamore, and view

     These plots of cottage-ground, these orchard tufts,

     Which at this season, with their unripe fruits,

     Are clad in one green hue, and lose themselves

     ’Mid groves and copses.

   • 1919, Ronald Firbank, Valmouth, Duckworth (hardback edition), p19:

     Striking the highway beyond the little copse she skirted the dark iron palings enclosing Hare.

Definizione dizionario copse

	bosco ceduo
	thicket of small trees or shrubs
	A dense, but generally small, growth of shrubs, bushes or small trees.

	fratta
	thicket of small trees or shrubs
	A dense, but generally small, growth of shrubs, bushes or small trees.

	boscaglia
	A dense, but generally small, growth of shrubs, bushes or small trees.

	macchia
	thicket of small trees or shrubs

Altri significati:

A thicket of small trees or shrubs.