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Discuss Email this Feedback RSS/XML Permalink A.Word.A.Day--copse This week's theme: uncommon homophones of common words. copse (kops) noun A thicket of small trees, bushes, shrubs, etc. especially one grown for periodic cutting. [Alteration of coppice. Via Middle English and French from Latin colpare (to cut).] Today's word in Visual Thesaurus. -Anu Garg (garg AT wordsmith.org) "We could also distinguish animals rustling in the nearby copses, and since we were in an area known to be a leopard habitat, it was entertaining to think that was what we were hearing." Larry Rohter: America; The Seoul Times (South Korea); Nov 10, 2005. X-Bonus Creative activity could be described as a type of learning process where teacher and pupil are located in the same individual. -Arthur Koestler, novelist and journalist (1905-1983)

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