What's the difference between copse and copsy?

Copse


Definition:

  • (n.) A wood of small growth; a thicket of brushwood. See Coppice.
  • (v. t.) To trim or cut; -- said of small trees, brushwood, tufts of grass, etc.
  • (v. t.) To plant and preserve, as a copse.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) He quoted figures from the Game and Wildlife Conservation Trust showing that shoots create or maintain 7,000 hectares of hedgerows and 100,000 hectares of copses.
  • (2) Last year's sites, Herridge's and Broom copses, are home to the silver-washed fritillary ( Argynnis paphia ), white admiral ( Limenitis camilla ) and scarlet tiger moth ( Callimorpha dominula ), and Sulham woods is inhabited by priority conservation species including the white-letter hairstreak ( Satyrium w-album ) and rare moths.
  • (3) In a copse of trees behind the lines, a lone bird sang.
  • (4) Whatever the weather, the beaters would drive the bred pheasants from their woodland home to a prepared unharvested patch of kale, just short of a high wooded copse.
  • (5) The Tarkine’s ancient copses, which form the biggest rainforest in Australia, are cut through with a patchwork of logged forests.
  • (6) It was a landscape sculpted by humans but there were no straight lines, and a kind of alchemy in the mix of fields, hedgerows, copses; it had evolved at a gentle pace, and plants and animals survived alongside our exploitation of its fertility.
  • (7) Now I can walk unencumbered, paper map and compass in my backpack, every so often checking my phone, where a pink arrow moves precisely across that familiar Explorer landscape, not only reassuring me that I am where I thought I was but providing quick answers to questions such as, “Is that distant clump of trees a copse, or hiding a horse-pond?” and “Where exactly should I plunge into this chest-high bracken to find this ruddy burial chamber?” The result is more time to think and daydream as I walk, and an even closer relationship with the place I am exploring.
  • (8) The main 10-hectare (25-acre) area to be treated – Herridge's and Broom copses near Pangbourne – are partly privately owned and and partly public woodland managed by the commission.
  • (9) Once it’s done it’s – pardon my French – buggered for ever.” The beech copses that hugged the hillsides smelt of foxes and were filled with pheasants.
  • (10) Initial Russian reports had said that president's Tupulov plane attempted to land three times - and that on its fourth attempt it clipped a copse of trees between 500 to 700 metres short of the runway, and immediately broke up.
  • (11) And it is quite a journey, a cross-section of Sussex, cutting through the South Downs and the Weald, past fields, copses, sheep, cows and tractors, starlings and stately homes.
  • (12) But a spokesman said they would not spray between 3 and 4.30pm because school-run traffic could be on the road through the 25-hectare woodlands, Herridge's Copse and Broom Copse, which are south-east of Pangbourne.
  • (13) But Padruig's house is next to a small copse, and he likes to take to the trees when he has important decisions to make.
  • (14) Which is exactly what we did on her last day, watching woodpeckers in the copse in front of her cottage, and remembering our adventures together; up to an hour before she died, we were planning a new one, and she was excited that it might include a recce to the Arctic Circle to view the aurora borealis .
  • (15) Facebook Twitter Pinterest A typical view of a Northamptonshire field through which HS2 will pass, near Halse Copse.

Copsy


Definition:

  • (a.) Characterized by copses.

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