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Copse vs Glenn - What's the difference?

copse | glenn |

As nouns the difference between copse and glenn

is that copse is a thicket of small trees or shrubs while glenn is valley.

As verbs the difference between copse and glenn

is that copse is (horticulture) to trim or cut while glenn is .

copse

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A thicket of small trees or shrubs.
  • * 1798 , , Lines composed a few miles above Tintern Abbey , lines 9–15 (for syntax):
    • The day is come when I again repose
    Here, under this dark sycamore, and view
    These plots of cottage-ground, these orchard tufts,
    Which at this season, with their unripe fruits,
    Are clad in one green hue, and lose themselves
    ’Mid groves and copses .
  • * 1919 , , Valmouth , Duckworth (hardback edition), p19:
    • Striking the highway beyond the little copse she skirted the dark iron palings enclosing Hare.

    Synonyms

    * coppice

    See also

    * bush, bushes, forest, mott, orchard * stand, thicket, wood, woods

    Verb

    (cops)
  • (horticulture) To trim or cut.
  • (horticulture) To plant and preserve.

    • Anagrams

    * copes, scope

    glenn

    English

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • , variant of Glen.
  • , fairly popular in the middle of the 20th century.

    • Quotations

    * 1937 Clara Studer, Sky storming Yankee , Stackpole sons, 1937, page 19: *: The Glen was the prettiest place she knew, so pretty she thought she ought to name her first baby after it. With another "n" added "to make it look more like a name", she called him Glenn Hammond Curtiss. The middle name was taken from the town itself, or its first settler, Lazarus Hammond. *: The whimsy of naming her son after a local landmark was typical of Lua Curtiss. Then too a name like Glenn Hammond Curtiss has sweep and resonance, was much less commonplace than Harry or Jim or Charlie; or Frank, like his father. ----