coppice
英['k?p?s]
美['kɑp?s]
- n. 矮林；小灌木林
詞態變化
第三人稱單數:?coppices;過去式:?coppiced;現在分詞:?coppicing;
中文詞源
coppice 修剪小樹以助長
來自cope原義擊，砍。指砍掉小樹的旁枝以便于生長。
英文詞源
- coppice
- coppice: [14] The notion underlying coppice is of ‘cutting’. Its ultimate source is the Greek noun kólaphos ‘blow’, which passed via Latin colaphus into medieval Latin as colpus (source of English cope and coup). From colpus was derived a verb colpāre ‘cut’, which formed the basis of Vulgar Latin colpātīcium ‘having the quality of being cut’. Its Old French descendant cope?z came to be applied to an area of small trees regularly cut back. English borrowed this as coppice (and in the 16th century spawned a new contracted form copse).
=> cope, copse, coup - coppice (n.)
- late 14c., "small thicket of trees grown for cutting," from Old French copeiz, coupeiz "a cut-over forest," from Vulgar Latin *colpaticium "having been cut," ultimately from Latin colaphus "a blow with the fist," from Greek kolaphos "blow, cuff" (see coup).
雙語例句
- 1. It is best to coppice the trees in the winter before the sap rises.
- 最好在冬天樹汁增多之前修剪這些樹。
來自柯林斯例句
- 2. A thicket of small trees or shrubs ; a coppice.
- 第二天,在一個美麗的小 灌木 林里布置了野餐.
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