spinney
noun/ˈspɪni/
/ˈspɪni/
(British English)- a small area of trees synonym copseWord Originlate 16th cent.: shortening of Old French espinei, from an alteration of Latin spinetum ‘thicket’, from spina ‘thorn’.
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