different between brushwood vs coppice

English

Etymology

brush +? wood

Noun

brushwood (countable and uncountable, plural brushwoods)

1. Branches and twigs fallen from trees and shrubs.
   • 1991, Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons, Oxford University Press, Chapter 3, p. 14,

     Small streams with hollowed-out banks came into sight, and the tiniest mill-ponds with frail dams, and little villages with low peasant huts under dark roofs, often with half their thatch gone, and small threshing barns all tilted to one side with walls made out of woven brushwood and gaping openings beside dilabidated hay-barns […]

2. Small trees and shrubs.
   • 1920, R. B. Cunninghame Graham, A Brazilian Mystic, Being the Life and Miracles of Antonio Conselheiro, London: Heinemann, Chapter 12, p. 169, [2]

     Houses had been deserted, and the thick brushwood of the tropics had grown up over everything, obliterating the brief authority of man.

Translations

References

• OED2

Anagrams

• shrubwood

English

Alternative forms

• coppis (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English copies, from Old French copeiz (“a cut-over forest”), from presumed Vulgar Latin *colpaticium (“having the quality of being cut”), from *colp?re (“to cut, strike”), from *colpus (“a blow”), from Latin colaphus (“a cuff, box on the ear”), from Ancient Greek ??????? (kólaphos, “a blow, slap”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k?p?s/

Noun

coppice (plural coppices)

1. A grove of small growth; a thicket of brushwood; a wood cut at certain times for fuel or other purposes, typically managed to promote growth and ensure a reliable supply of timber. See copse.
   • 1957, Schubert, H.R. History of the British Iron and Steel Industry, p216:

     It was also enacted that all coppices or underwoods should be enclosed for periods from four to seven years after felling.

Synonyms

• copse

Derived terms

• copse

Translations

Verb

coppice (third-person singular simple present coppices, present participle coppicing, simple past and past participle coppiced)

1. (transitive) To manage (a wooded area) sustainably, as a coppice, by periodically cutting back woody plants to promote new growth.

   Her plan to coppice the woods should keep her self-sufficient in fuel indefinitely.

2. (intransitive) To sprout from the stump.

   Few conifer species can coppice.

Derived terms

• recoppice

Translations

References

• Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “coppice”, in Online Etymology Dictionary [see also its linking entry coup]