Copse vs Woodland - What's the difference?
copse | woodland |
A thicket of small trees or shrubs.
* 1798 , , Lines composed a few miles above Tintern Abbey , lines 9–15 (for syntax):
* 1919 , , Valmouth , Duckworth (hardback edition), p19:
(horticulture) To trim or cut.
(horticulture) To plant and preserve.
Land covered with woody vegetation.
* Alexander Pope
* Bancroft
* {{quote-book, year=2006, author=
, title=Internal Combustion
, chapter=2 Of or pertaining to a creature or object growing, living, or existing in a woodland.
* 1837 , “Picus''”, in Charles Frederick Partington (editor), ''The British Cyclopædia of Natural History , Volume 3, W. S. Orr & Co.,
* 1839 , , The Natural History of the Birds of Great Britain and Ireland, Part II: Incessories'', part of ''The Naturalist's Library , W.H. Lizars,
* 1890 July, , “My Islands”, in Longman's Magazine , Volume 16, Number 93,
* 1894 , R. Bowdler Sharpe, A Hand-Book to the Birds of Great Britain , Volume I, W. H. Allen & Co., Limited,
(obsolete) Having the character of a .
* {{quote-news, year=1827, author="Amateur", title=Northamptonshire, Huntingdonshire, and Bedfordshire Hunting, work=Sporting Magazine, pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=yr4CAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA64, page=64
, passage=It is a very woodland country, with plenty of grass, but it is too large for four days a-week, and the sport is generally rather indifferent.}}
* {{quote-book, year=1835, author=, title=Nimrod's Hunting Tours, page=109, pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=p-wIAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA109
, passage=
* {{quote-book, year=1871, author=George Gill, title=Fourth Reader
, passage=Shortly after leaving Swindon the main line enters Wiltshire, and runs through an extremely woodland district to Chippenham
As nouns the difference between copse and woodland
is that copse is a thicket of small trees or shrubs while woodland is land covered with woody vegetation.As a verb copse
is (horticulture) to trim or cut.As an adjective woodland is
of or pertaining to a creature or object growing, living, or existing in a woodland.copse
English
Noun
(en noun)- 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 .
- Striking the highway beyond the little copse she skirted the dark iron palings enclosing Hare.
Synonyms
* coppiceSee also
* bush, bushes, forest, mott, orchard * stand, thicket, wood, woodsVerb
(cops)Anagrams
* copes, scopewoodland
English
(wikipedia woodland)Noun
(en noun)- Here hills and vales, the woodland and the plain, / Here earth and water seem to strive again.
- Woodlands and cultivated fields are harmoniously blended.
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Synonyms
* timberland * forestAdjective
(en adjective)- The woodland creatures ran from the fire.
page 446:
- This species [
is a very little larger than the red-headed one; and it is more woodland in its manners; seldom appearing in orchards or near houses, but keeping to the tall trees in the close forests.
page 125–6:
- The genera Philomela'' and ''Curruca , as we previously observed, are very closely allied to each other, both are woodland in their habits, and both possess great melody of song.
page 341:
- It was a couple of hundred years or so more before I saw a third bullfinch — which didn't surprise me, for bullfinches are very woodland birds, and non-migratory into the bargain — so that they didn’t often get blown seaward over the broad Atlantic.
page 91:
- As its name implies, this species [
is a more woodland bird than the other British Larks, and in many of its ways of life it resembles the Tree Pipit, frequenting the neighborhood of woods and plantations, but always affecting trees.
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