A grove of trees; a copse; a wood; a wooded eminence. (The last variety of sense, found in modern dialects, may be the primary one.)
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| 释义 | the world > plants > by growth or development > defined by habit > tree or woody plant > wood or assemblage of trees or shrubs > [noun] > planted, cultivated, or valued > coppice or grove (28) hurst822 A grove of trees; a copse; a wood; a wooded eminence. (The last variety of sense, found in modern dialects, may be the primary one.) grove889 A small wood; a group of trees affording shade or forming avenues or walks, occurring naturally or planted for a special purpose. wood bough?c1225 In Middle English poetry, in combinations wood bough, wood lay (lea, n.1) = ? glade or grove, wood lind (= tree), wood rise (rice, n.1, small… wood lay?c1225 In Middle English poetry, in combinations wood bough, wood lay (lea, n.1) = ? glade or grove, wood lind (= tree), wood rise (rice, n.1, small… wood lind?c1225 In Middle English poetry, in combinations wood bough, wood lay (lea, n.1) = ? glade or grove, wood lind (= tree), wood rise (rice, n.1, small… wood rise?c1225 In Middle English poetry, in combinations wood bough, wood lay (lea, n.1) = ? glade or grove, wood lind (= tree), wood rise (rice, n.1, small… spring1396 A copse, grove, or wood consisting of young trees growing naturally from the stumps of old ones; (also) a plantation of young trees, esp. one… firth?a1400 A synonym of frith, n.2 in some of its senses: A deer-forest, hunting-ground; a piece of ground covered with brushwood with a few trees; a… berwec1440 A grove, a shady place. spring?c1475 With of. A copse or grove of young trees or plants. Chiefly in spring of wood (cf. wood, n.1 2a). Obsolete. grovet1504 A little grove. coppice1538 A small wood or thicket consisting of underwood and small trees grown for the purpose of periodical cutting. copsewood1543 A copse, n. archaic or Obsolete. sherwood1562 A grove; also, greenwood. hewt1575 ? A copse; a grove. copse1578 = coppice, n.; a thicket of small trees or underwood periodically cut for economic purposes. grove-crop1582 a grove. berrie1591 See quot. 1591. low wood1591 underwood, copsewood; a body of low-growing or shrubby wood. spinney1597 A small wood or copse, esp. one planted or preserved for sheltering game-birds; a small clump or plantation of trees. spinet1604 A thicket; a spinney. spring wood1607 A copse or wood of young trees or springs (spring, n.1 23c). Now historical and rare (English regional (northern and midlands) in later use). roughet1616 A field overgrown with bracken or bushes; a stretch of waste land. Also: a copse. In later use sometimes in the names of such pieces of ground. Cf… oart1690 In western India: a grove of trees, esp. coconut palms. toft1706 ‘A small grove of trees’ (Eng. Dial. Dict.). dialect (or ? error in Kersey's Phillips.) Obsolete. under-grove1731 (under-, prefix1 affix 2b(b) affix 2b(d).) bosket1737 A plantation in a garden, park, etc., of underwood and small trees; a thicket. busket1803 = bosket, n. |
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