(n.) Brush; a thicket or coppice of small trees and shrubs.
(n.) Small branches of trees cut off.
Example Sentences:
(1) Builders laid logs and brushwood on the boggy ground before building it up in layers, finishing with gravel and rammed clay still so solid and sound it looks modern.
(2) In the subalpine zone, where the number and density of these animals in rather high, the infestation rate is greater than that in the brushwood zone.
(3) More in detail, domestic burns were caused as follows: alcohol spraying to stir a fire (26%), gas burst (25%), flammable substances exposed to heat sources (18%), hot water or different liquid (8%), fall over heating devices (6%), fires from cigarettes in bed (5%), kitchen stoves (with or without clothing fire) (5%), brushwood burning (4%), other (3%).
(4) The 25% relapses show the importance of a good limb prosthesis, of sanitary education of the patients and their supervision when they go back to brushwood.
Coppice
Definition:
(n.) A grove of small growth; a thicket of brushwood; a wood cut at certain times for fuel or other purposes. See Copse.
Example Sentences:
(1) Ten of the 13 species that depend on specific habitats - heathland, coppices, woodland glades, bracken, hedgerows and so on - have fared better on sites where farmers had agreed to tend the landscape with wildlife in mind.
(2) Set on the side of a shallow green valley of fields, coppices and orchards, Rakinice is an astonishingly beautiful spot, but you cannot eat the scenery.
(3) Each coppice stool, possessing a girth that suggested medieval origin, had sent up three to five slender stems with a giant beanstalk thrust 50 or 60 feet high.
(4) Who cares whether a tree is a hunched and fissured coppiced oak, worked by people for centuries, or a sapling planted beside a slip-road with a rabbit guard around it?
(5) In a coppice, under conditions of low grass availability and high stocking rate (300 ewes.ha-1) the time spent eating bushes reaches 60% of grazing time and increases with flock size (stocking rates of 50 ewes.ha-1 vs 150 ewes.ha-1).
(6) Most indigenous trees in Africa coppice when cut, their stumps looking like tangled weeds and valueless scrub to the unknowing eye.
(7) Kevin Baskill, the interim head of Coppice primary school in Chigwell, Essex, said a substantial number of children at his school were bussed from elsewhere in the same local authority, Redbridge, because of the uneven demand for places.
(8) It involves activities such as restoring heathland, burning brash – cuttings left over from wood management – digging ditches, path widening, coppicing, scrub clearance, fence removal and pond maintenance.
(9) By coppicing trees, for example, they let in more light, which allows other species to thrive.
(10) These sites could be linked to sustainable forestry and techniques, notably coppicing.
(11) Since 2009, Sall has practised farmer-managed natural regeneration (FMNR), protecting wildlings and pruning stumps that coppice so they rapidly grow or regrow into trees.
(12) It is now managed by Suffolk Wildlife Trust , but it has been under continuous coppice management since 1252 and you can still buy your firewood and hazel products near the entrance.
(13) Some of the coppiced ash "stools" are thought to be over 1,000 years old.
(14) Wildlife experts back the return of beavers, which manage the landscape by coppicing trees and building dams, because of the benefits for flood prevention, water quality and wildlife, but farmers are among those who have raised concerns over their impact.
(15) It's full of a weird selection of fungi in the autumn and stunning bare coppiced trees in winter.
(16) The tree had last been coppiced , or cut back to its base, perhaps 100 years before, and the stool was now rather like a hollowed-out cauldron.
(17) "I can put ministers on the spot, I think," he says self-deprecatingly, searching his rucksack for a copy of Hansard and his 1985 private members bill, during a rest-stop in an ancient patch of silver birch, planted as coppice for making textile mill bobbins.