(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.
Shrub
Definition:
(n.) A liquor composed of vegetable acid, especially lemon juice, and sugar, with spirit to preserve it.
(n.) A woody plant of less size than a tree, and usually with several stems from the same root.
(v. t.) To lop; to prune.
Example Sentences:
(1) Close to the smelters tree species accumulated more foliar fluoride than shrub species, which in turn accumulated more foliar fluoride than herb species.
(2) Across this relatively peaceful corner of the Horn of Africa, where black-headed sheep scamper among the thorn bushes, dainty gerenuk balance on their hind legs to nibble from hardy shrubs, and skinny camels wearing rough-hewn bells lumber over rocky slopes, people long accustomed to a harsh environment find they cannot cope after years of below-average rainfall.
(3) I like the challenges that come with those that thrive in such adverse conditions, and there are plenty: woodland species that make the most of what little sunlight hits the leaf litter; ferns that like dripping cave mouths and cliff faces cast in gloom; and small shrubs that eke out a living under bigger things, such as butcher’s broom ( Ruscus aculeatus ) and fragrant sweet box ( sarcoccoca ).
(4) This study investigated the effect of prolonged ingestion of Leucaena leucocephala, a leguminous shrub with a potential as a source of animal feed in Southern Taiwan, by heifers on serum thyroid hormone levels.
(5) The group, which entered through a fence around the Lincolnshire at 8am and included a Catholic priest and an Anglican priest, managed to set up banners and plant a "peace garden" consisting of a number of shrubs before they were arrested.
(6) It is concluded that these goats have a feeding habit similar to that of cattle rather than resting their forelimbs on the shrubs while nibbling the leaves as recorded in Asian goats.
(7) Glia shrubs in the cerebellar cortex appeared to be formed along the apical dendrite of Purkinje cells.
(8) The ACMD report described it as a herbal product made up of the leaves and shoots of the shrub Catha edulis, which releases a mild stimulant after being chewed for about an hour and three quarters.
(9) About half of the species eaten came from the dense herb and shrub layers.
(10) But over in the hospital, beyond the fences and shrubs, there is movement.
(11) According to the Garden Bridge trust, the new crossing would feature not only shrubs, trees, plants, benches and even "intimate walkways", but would also serve as a direct link between the South Bank and Covent Garden and Soho.
(12) Away from the city, green gives way to bush, then desert pockmarked with shrubs.
(13) The most favourable biotope for the circulation of Ixodes ticks, which are the principal vectors of the virus, is provided by the margins of these natural forests and their supplementary shrub communities.
(14) The following risk factors were assessed: black fly bites, presence of rodents at home, exposure to cereal dust, exposure to fumes or dust released by tree and shrub removal, and exposure to insecticides.
(15) I'm in St Ives in Cornwall, strolling around the Barbara Hepworth Sculpture Garden, a thickly growing, almost tropical space where tree, plant, shrub and sculpture live in perfect harmony.
(16) There is a widespread practice among people living in Eastern Africa and Southern Arabia of chewing the leaves of the Khat shrub so as to produce pharmacological effects that are practically indistinguishable from those produced by amphetamine (AMPH).
(17) Herbicides are a heterogeneous class of chemicals used in agriculture, forestry, and urban settings to kill weeds, shrubs, and broad-leaved trees.
(18) Shrubs and trees, especially of the Rosaceae (primarily species of Prunus), were particularly important as nectar sources and bloomed concurrently with the appearance of nulliparous females.
(19) Cathinone is an active ingredient in the leaves of the Khat shrub.
(20) Therefore, during the spring and fall, activities that take place in high-shrub areas or in the woods (e.g., landscaping, trail or brush clearing) involve a high risk of exposure to adult ticks infected with Lyme disease.