The word 'copse' is correct and can be used in written English.
It is a noun that refers to a small group of trees, typically growing close together. Example: We took a hike through the copse, enjoying the peaceful sounds of birds chirping and leaves rustling in the breeze.
The Elizabethans associated madness with forests, but in Laura Beatty's first novel, "Pollard", an unhinged mind finds lucidity in the woods.Anne, a 15-year-old who "can't see the wood for the trees", abandons her awful family and moves to the forest where she clears a copse, dams a stream and builds herself a shelter.
The path drops down to a copse where you follow South Downs Way markers to reach a crossroads.
The vegetation on Thursley Common was tinder dry, the heather and the gorse; all it needed was an act of carelessness to set it ablaze, and that appears to have happened in Spur Wood, a small copse of Scots pines in the centre of the reserve.
She arrives at a copse of trees, where she spots Luke.
The late Roger Deakin's Notes from Walnut Tree Farm Hamish Hamiltonn, £20) is a diary of thoughts and impressions from his private world, a few acres of field and copse around a farmhouse in Suffolk.
Yet there we were – a respectable family of four – parking our car near the petrol pumps and making swiftly for the cover of a copse of pine trees to get undressed.
My favourite part of this great track is Copse corner and then Maggots and Becketts, and I was really hooked up there on that lap and it felt terrific.
Gaddafi fled into a copse of trees and hid with bodyguards in a concrete culvert under a nearby highway.
We are standing in the copse, surrounded by blackened pine trunks – some of the trees have died, but others have sprung back to life in their upper branches.
Its five pitches (plus loo and shower) are set within a small copse on an island on the Thames.
The ragged cliffsides are shedding their brown winter coat for the more colourful garb of purple thrift; yellow and green sea campion are beginning to fringe the pathway; and though the daffodils are fading, the bluebells are still putting on a good show where the path drops inland briefly to dip through a wooded copse.
