(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.
Grove
Definition:
(v.) A smaller group of trees than a forest, and without underwood, planted, or growing naturally as if arranged by art; a wood of small extent.
Example Sentences:
(1) Biological monitoring was performed for one year at the site of an orange grove on the left bank of the river.
(2) Where to stay: Beachside bungalows at Coco Grove Beach Resort cost £19 per person.
(3) In Gove's groves of academe, high achievers will be more clearly set apart, laurels for the winners in his regime of fact and rote, 1950s grammar schools reprised, rewarding those who already thrive under any system.
(4) In the (dpTpA)2:NQO and (dpApT)2NQO complexes, the NO2 seems to project into the minor grove and the NQO benzenoid ring is over the purine imidazole ring.
(5) The applicability to these data of the Groves and Thompson (1970) Dual-Process Model of Habituation is discussed.
(6) In the palm grove, transmission was ensured by 2 effective vectors during the rainy season (October to May).
(7) Schad was sentenced to death for killing Lorimer "Leroy" Grove, whose body was found 9 August 1978, in underbrush off the shoulder of US 89 south of Prescott.
(8) Perched in a grove of poplars and with prayer flags stretching away on all sides, Muktinath is Nepal's second-most sacred site for Hindus after Pashupatinath , which in comparison lies rather forlornly at the end of Kathmandu's international airport runway.
(9) The spark for the longest-running protest in modern Tunisian history was lit on 17 December in the town of Sidi Bouzid, in the rural interior of Tunisia, a region of olive groves and agriculture which is racked by vast unemployment, repression and poverty a world away from the riches of the Tunisian tourist coast and the propaganda of Tunisia's "economic miracle".
(10) James Clapper , the director of national intelligence, is said to talk nearly every day with the head of US Central Command’s intelligence wing, Army Major General Steven Grove – “which is highly, highly unusual”, according to a former intelligence official.
(11) So I say to them: ‘Your challenge, guys, is actually to play it straight.’” At Highbury Grove the experiment is in its early stages.
(12) The principal catching site was a palm grove surrounded by forest 3 km from the village.
(13) Previous studies from this laboratory have demonstrated that the electrical excitability of nigro-striatal dopaminergic terminals is reduced by the dopaminomimetics apomorphine and amphetamine and is increased by the dopamine antagonists haloperidol, fluphenazine and sulpiride (Groves, Fenster, Tepper, Nakamura, and Young 1981; Tepper, Nakamura, Young and Groves 1984).
(14) Biological monitoring was performed for one year at the site of a sugar cane grove on the left bank of the river.
(15) The widespread use of herbicides in Florida citrus groves raises the possibility of residue accumulation following repeated applications.
(16) At Ladbroke Grove, shortly after the flame had passed from the bus to relay runners, it was almost wrestled from the hands of TV presenter Konnie Huq.
(17) Two men in balaclavas stood in an olive grove, firing shot after earsplitting shot into the air, their M16s angled a bit too low for comfort.
(18) According to his agent Jonathan Groves, he conducted there "every year since he made his debut in 1952 until his final appearances with Rigoletto in 2005".
(19) However, the political debate fails to reflect that contemporary reality in any meaningful way.” The report , by Ford and Ruth Grove-White from the Migrants’ Rights Network, is published on Thursday and based on an analysis of data from the census in 2001 and 2011 and the national statistics agency.
(20) Rotblat overheard the military director of the Manhattan Project, Lieutenant General Richard Groves, say at a wartime dinner party: "You realise of course that the main purpose of this project is to subdue the Russkies."