I. ˈkä-pəs noun
Etymology: Middle English copies cutover area overgrown with brush, from Middle French copeis, from Old French, from Vulgar Latin * colpaticium, from * colpare to cut, from Late Latin colpus blow — more at cope
Date: 1534
1. : a thicket, grove, or growth of small trees
2. : forest originating mainly from shoots or root suckers rather than seed
II. verb
( cop·piced ; cop·pic·ing )
Date: 1538
transitive verb
: to cut back so as to regrow in the form of a coppice
intransitive verb
: to form a coppice ; specifically of a tree : to sprout freely from the base