| Copse 1. (n.) A wood of small growth; a thicket of brushwood. See Coppice. 2. (v. t.) To trim or cut; -- said of small trees, brushwood, tufts of grass, etc. 3. (v. t.) To plant and preserve, as a copse. Thesaurus Entries batch, bocage, boscage, bosk, bosket, brake, bunch, canebrake, ceja, chamisal, chaparral, clump, cluster, coppice, copsewood, covert, crop, frith, group, grouping, groupment, grove, hassock, holt, hurst, knot, lot, mess, motte, orchard, shaw, shock, slew, spinney, stook, thicket, thickset, tope, tuft, tussock, wisp, wood lot, woodlet |