Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary - coppice

 I. noun  Etymology: Middle English copies cutover area overgrown with brush, from Middle French copeis, from Old French, from Vulgar Latin *colpaticium, from *colpare to cut, from Late Latin colpus blow — more at cope  Date: 1534  1. a thicket, grove, or growth of small trees  2. forest originating mainly from shoots or root suckers rather than seed  II. verb  (~d; coppicing)  Date: 1538  transitive verb to cut back so as to regrow in the form of a ~  intransitive verb to form a ~; specifically of a tree to sprout freely from the base