copsewood

English

Etymology

From copse +‎ wood.

Noun

copsewood (countable and uncountable, plural copsewoods)

1. brushwood
2. coppice, copse
   • 1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter III, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC:

     The badger made his dark and tortuous hole on the side of every hill where the copsewood grew thick.

References

• “copsewood”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.