[cop.pice] n [MF copeiz, fr. couper to cut--more at cope] (1534) 1: a thicket, grove, or growth of small trees
2: forest originating mainly from shoots or root suckers rather than seed
[2]coppice vb cop.piced ; cop.pic.ing vt (1538): to cut back so as to regrow in the form of a coppice ~ vi: to form a coppice; specif, of a tree: to sprout freely from the base