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coppices

noun

plural of coppice

as in bushes

a thick patch of shrubbery, small trees, or underbrush the deer bounded off into the coppice

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Noun

Expanding fires and heavy smoke left them with no safe route back to larger forests before they were evacuated in early September, Suciadi said.

— ABC News, ABC News, 13 Oct. 2026
Instead, it’s comprised of five—Sani Beach, Sani Asterias, Porto Sani, Sani Dunes, and Sani Club—stretched out across a slip of sandy beach backed by pine forests on the northwestern Aegean.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 12 Oct. 2026

Definition of forests

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The vegetation is mostly grassland, which shines with an almost alien-green intensity in the spring, dotted with copses of twisted oak and buckeye trees.

— John Metcalfe, Mercury News, 4 May 2026
Walk in forests where dragonflies buzz and orchids bloom in secret copses.

— Lydia Bell, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 Jan. 2026

Definition of copses

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Only 10 minutes from the scenic harbor of Camden, the landscape is rural without being rural—in the woods, but just a short drive to seaside life.

— Dodie Kazanjian, Vogue, 19 Oct. 2026
For him, hunting and conservation aren't just about what happens in the woods.

— Amber Harding OutKick, FOXNews.com, 19 Oct. 2026

Definition of woods

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The settlers hurled stones with slings and set the groves on fire, chasing a group of journalists about 80 yards from the scene.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 17 Oct. 2026
In Turmus Ayya, a village northeast of Ramallah, Mayor Nawaf Zghoul said settlers early Friday had burned several cars in the hamlet’s surrounding olive groves.

— Sam Metz, Los Angeles Times, 16 Oct. 2026

Definition of groves

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Finally the buck turned, bounded up on top of the bank, still in thickets where no arrow could get through, and started to walk around my tree.

— Al Dawson, Outdoor Life, 15 Oct. 2026
Cue an enthralling chase sequence, doubling back through those higgledy-piggledy Portland streetscapes, toward the woods — the impenetrable thickets and thorns of which magically part in her presence.

— Guy Lodge, Variety, 11 Oct. 2026

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