(1) the second crop was of underwood and coppice(2) I, too, felt as if I was peering into a coppice - a wood or thicket characterized by a dense, often tangled, underwood of stump shoots and suckers encouraged into being by the periodic cutting down of trees.(3) From the Forest of Dean the king took minerals, underwood , timber, and red and fallow deer.(4) they sell underwood belonging to the Crown