I’ve been searching for a bit and figured I’d ask y’all.
How about “copse” (a small group of trees)
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/copse
Thanks! I think thats the closest term to what I was thinking of.
Copse was my initial thought, but there is also the word Spinney.
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.
Grove and thicket are the only two I’ve ever actually heard. I’d go with grove.
Copse
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.
Ent moot
The only reply which takes the “gathering” aspect into account. But wouldn’t Ents tell you they are not trees? Still, we don’t have to cede to their demands here.
Let them present themselves and their objections to being called trees and I will listen.
I think that argument would be moo.
You mean like a cow’s opinion?
Yes. It’s a moo point. It’s moo.
I appreciate that you’re asking us instead of asking the trees directly and, thus, waking them.
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.
So you’re saying that corpses make copses?
Heh, figuratively you could say that. It’s more like the trees are not cleared around the graveyard out of respect for the graves.
A stand, group, troop, copse or grove depending on the specifics.
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!
Sounds similar to the English word thicket.
I had a dickicht and Greek yogurt cleared it right up.
A murder of trees. /s jk
A grove
I’d say a grove
Spinney is a nice word for a smallish gathering of trees, alongside copse, coppice, etc. I’m not aware of a term for one specifically in an open field, though.
A copse
What do you call a circle of trees in an open field with one evil tree in the middle, but not quite in the center?
A heart cursed copse
