GROVE

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I. (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Garden consisting of a small cultivated wood without undergrowth

Synonyms:

grove; orchard; plantation; woodlet

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("grove" is a kind of...):

garden (a plot of ground where plants are cultivated)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "grove"):

apple orchard (a grove of apple trees)

lemon grove (a grove of lemon trees)

orange grove (grove of orange trees)

peach orchard (a grove of peach trees)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A small growth of trees without underbrush

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("grove" is a kind of...):

forest; wood; woods (the trees and other plants in a large densely wooded area)

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Context examples:

Now the richer fields of the North have absorbed the trade, and nothing save these ravaged groves and great scars in the earth show the work of the past.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Then down they all went, and at the bottom they found themselves in a most delightful grove of trees; and the leaves were all of silver, and glittered and sparkled beautifully.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

An artery arising from the bifurcation of the left coronary artery that runs along the coronary grove with branches supplying the atria and ventricles.

(Circumflex Branch of the Left Coronary Artery, NCI Thesaurus)

The fountains, gardens, walks, avenues, and groves, were all disposed with exact judgment and taste.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

From a grove upon our left I could already see the high chimneys and the flag-staff which marked the squire’s dwelling.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A beloved home made over to others; all the precious rooms and furniture, groves, and prospects, beginning to own other eyes and other limbs!

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

Chattering jays and loud wood-pigeons flapped thickly overhead, while ever and anon the measured tapping of Nature's carpenter, the great green woodpecker, sounded from each wayside grove.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

She was on the point of continuing her walk, when she caught a glimpse of a gentleman within the sort of grove which edged the park; he was moving that way; and, fearful of its being Mr. Darcy, she was directly retreating.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

They got us soon to this town of theirs—about a thousand huts of branches and leaves in a great grove of trees near the edge of the cliff.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Yet, as I began to thread the grove that lies before it, I was not so thoughtless but that I slacked my pace and went a trifle warily.