I’ve been searching for a bit and figured I’d ask y’all.
Fun fact: when you see a copse of trees like that, there’s a chance there’s an old graveyard there. Not always, of course. Sometimes they are left as a windbreak, and other reasons.
Totally pointless tangent: looking up “copse” on the Galnet translation dictionary (free, offline, fdroid) the Deutsch word is dickicht
…totally appropriate loanword to steal IMO. Adventure… linguistically!
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It would depend exactly how big/substantial this ‘gathering’ is, but I could imagine that “Grove”, “Stand” or “Thicket” might be appropriate.
They aren’t exclusive to your definition, but could be applicable.
Came here for grove.
One of the surnames on my mom’s side of the family means “grove of trees near a bog” and comes from the same area as my best friend’s surname that means “evil bog goblin”
I like to think that his family was evil bog spirits, and my family were good tree people, and he and I have mended the feud.
This has nothing to do with OP’s question, I just thought of it when grove came up, and thought I’d share.
This is awesome. Mind sharing what the two names are? Especially evil bog goblin, wow.
I’ve always used grove, but wonder if that’s species dependent.
I agree with others saying copse, as being my first thought as well, but I’m really commenting to say I love the imagery the description, “a gathering of trees” produces.
Yeah, it makes it sound like the trees are getting together because they’re planning something - improving the world maybe.
How about “copse” (a small group of trees)
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/copse
