mott

Definition

A copse or small grove of trees, especially live oak or elm.

Etymology

Probably ultimately from French motte; compare motte.

Example Sentences

• "They were rolling southward on the International. The timber was huddling into little dense, green motts at rare distances before the inundation of the downright, vert prairies. This was the land of the ranches; the domain of the kings of the kine."
• "We continued northwest, the grass tall with scattered thick motts of oak and the mesquites with their flickering leaves and the yuccas in bloom with their white flowers."