Coppice
/ˈkɒp.ɪs/noun
A thicket of small trees or shrubs grown from cut stumps or roots, or a woodland managed by repeated cutting.
Did you know?The word comes from the same Old French root as *cup*, originally referring to a rounded top or clump, so a coppice was first basically a “little tuft” of trees.
Etymological Timeline
Proto-Indo-European
PIE
*kup-
“to curve, bend, or be hollow”
Latin
Latin
cuppa
“a cup or tub”
Late Latin
Latin
colpicia
“a clump or rounded mass”
Old French
Old French
copeiz
“a cut-over wood or thicket”
Middle English
English
coppice
“a thicket of small trees repeatedly cut for regrowth”
Modern English
English
coppice
“a woodland or thicket managed by cutting back trees to encourage new shoots”