Spinney
[SPIN-ee]
Part of speech: noun
Origin: Old French, 16th century
1.
A small area of trees and bushes.
Examples of Spinney in a sentence
"Our dog raced into the spinney at the edge of the rest stop before returning with a stick."
"The picnickers laid out their blanket beside a spinney of pine trees at one end of the park."
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