I’ve been searching for a bit and figured I’d ask y’all.
A clump.
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.
A stand, group, troop, copse or grove depending on the specifics.
I’d say a grove
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
A fairy teleportation portal. It’s the upgraded version of a circle of mushrooms.
To not be confused with a circle of 4-leaf clovers, which is the treasury entrance to a leprechaun’s pot of gold.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.
How about “copse” (a small group of trees)
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/copse
A copse, as the name suggests, is a stand of trees that have been deliberately coppiced (ie, repeatedly cut near the base so that the rootstock remains alive and generates fresh branches at ground level).
A better term might be the more generic “stand”.
Yep, came here to say just that.
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.
A copse
A grove
Copse
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 cluster?
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.
I appreciate that you’re asking us instead of asking the trees directly and, thus, waking them.
