![]() Traditionally managed by laying, and sometimes with occasional large trees left uncut to grow as ‘standards’ Devon) they are planted on top of soil-filled double stone walls. Small group of trees on a hillside or slopeĪ line of trees, often comprising shrub species, traditionally planted and maintained to mark a boundary or to contain livestock. Forest of Dean, New Forest), but in modern usage with a lowercase used widely describe a large area of trees, although often interchangeably with wood or woodlandĪ small group of trees, generally of an attractive natureĪ clearing in a wood or forest, from Old Norse and used still in northern England With a capital ‘F’ refers historically to a royal hunting forest ( e.g. Steep-sided wooded valley, commonly used in Wales Small valley or hollow, usually ( but not always) covered with trees ![]() Technically an area managed as coppice but commonly used to describe a small wood. Refers to the management practice of coppicing, although sometimes used to describe an area managed as a coppice crop e.g. Management unit of a forest, used as a technical term among foresters to define areas under similar management or with discrete mixtures of tree speciesĪn area within a woodland where the trees are to be felled Hilltop group of trees, often prominent in the landscape with 14 year coppice rotation, there will be 14 cants)ĭense thickets of trees in the Mediterranean region (Europe), California (USA) and Mexico, usually comprising evergreen broadleaved species adapted to hot dry summersĪn area clear of trees in a wood or forest, sometimes created when trees are felled for timber or kept free to enhance biodiversity or landscape Wooded area but usually not densely populated with treesīlock within a woodland (usually 2-5 acres) often used to described an area under coppice management, with the number of cants equal to the rotation length (e.g. lime avenueĪn old Anglo-Saxon name for a small wood. ![]() Row of trees, often a double row, marking an approach to a feature or lining the sides of a road. collective nounīotanical collection of trees, often supporting public education and science activities, including genetic conservation. A clump of trees on the top of a hill, and a hedge near the valley bottom with small standards, lit by the winter solstice sun. Perhaps some will be new to you maybe I’ve missed one that you know. When is a forest not a Forest, and a wood not a copse but a spinney? I’ve put together a list of collective nouns for trees from the English language from arboretum to woodland.
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