coppices

plural of coppice

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for coppices
Noun
  • An unusually dry and hot winter has created dangerously flammable conditions in forests and grasslands across the West.
    Trevor Hughes, USA Today, 30 June 2026
  • Visitors moved from the sandstone cliffs of Antelope Canyon to the dappled light of the Ponderosa forests, and then the bright starscape of the Sonoran Desert.
    Rob Crilly, The Washington Examiner, 30 June 2026
Noun
  • The vegetation is mostly grassland, which shines with an almost alien-green intensity in the spring, dotted with copses of twisted oak and buckeye trees.
    John Metcalfe, Mercury News, 4 May 2026
  • Walk in forests where dragonflies buzz and orchids bloom in secret copses.
    Lydia Bell, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • Royce Ben Jameson was arrested on suspicion of the offense of firing woods or prairie and third-degree criminal trespass.
    Jennifer McRae, CBS News, 1 July 2026
  • According to a medical examiner, the infant had likely been in the woods for only about 12 hours before being discovered.
    Louis Casiano, FOXNews.com, 1 July 2026
Noun
  • But all of it—the estate, the vineyards, the olive groves, the food, and the pace—is part of the same story.
    Tia Lovisa Moreira, Travel + Leisure, 2 July 2026
  • Known as Villa Uglione, the estate sits high on a hill near the quiet villages of Tavarnelle Val di Pesa and Barberino Val d’Elsa, surrounded by rolling vineyards and olive groves.
    Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 1 July 2026
Noun
  • Only a depression in the ground remains at the Ingalls Dugout Site, but eagle-eyed visitors can still spot the spring, tablelands, thickets of plum trees, and other landmarksr described in the book of the same name.
    Alicia Underlee Nelson, Midwest Living, 22 June 2026
  • Tony Kushner's screenplay turns the thickets of policymaking into a righteous sort of poetry.
    Chris Nashawaty, Entertainment Weekly, 13 June 2026
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“Coppices.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/coppices. Accessed 6 Jul. 2026.

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