coppice

KOP-iss

To cut a broadleaf tree close to the ground and let it regrow from the stool in multiple straight stems. The oldest form of woodland management โ€” a coppiced hazel stool can live for centuries, perhaps indefinitely, regrowing every twelve to sixteen years. The cut wood was the fuel, fencing, and building material of preindustrial life. Also the woodland itself managed this way: a coppice.
Etymology
Old French copeiz, from coper, to cut. A cut wood.
ecology flora French human settlement
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