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COPSE, SPINNEY, GROVE, THICKET, COPPICE …

There are dozens of other names for a group of trees in the English language. Their definitions are also rather loose but we can delight in celebrating the diversity they bring to conversation:

• avenue – a line of trees, one or more rows deep, each side of a road or vista
  (e.g. Clipsham Yew Tree Avenue).


• brake – a clump of shrubs, brushwood, briars or fallen trees (see also thicket).


• coombe – the head of a wood in a valley
  (cwm – valley (often wooded) in the Welsh language).


• coppice – an area of woodland where the shrubs (e.g. hazel) are cut regularly to produce products.


• copse – a very small woodland (perhaps less than 0.25 hectares?).


• covert – a dense groups of trees or shrubs, often connected with game.


• dingle – a deep wooded valley or dell.


• grove – a small group of trees without undergrowth. Also used to describe a productive system (e.g.orange grove).


• spinney – often used to describe a copse that shelters game.


• stand – a small group of trees. Also used by foresters to describe a particular group of trees under similar management.


• thicket – a dense growth of shrubs and briars.


• wood is used interchangeably with woodland.


• Read more here>>http://gabrielhemery.com/2011/08/01/forest-woodland-copse-or-spinney/