grove
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++LDOCE 5++grove /ɡrəʊv $ ɡroʊv/ ●○○ noun 1 [countable]TAF a piece of land with trees growing on it 小树林grove of a small grove of beech trees 一小片山毛榉树林olive/lemon/palm etc grove He owns an orange grove near Tel Aviv. 他在特拉维夫附近拥有一个橘园。► see thesaurus at forestn2. → Grove
Examples from the Corpus
grove• a lemon grove• I was awestruck in the maple grove, immersed there in the luminescent yellow all around.• His island, she mused, as she drove through almond and olive groves.• The dense palm grove had been cleared and hundreds of casuarina trees chopped down and grubbed out.• the redwood groves of Northern California• As a description of a sacred grove, with its legends, character and atmosphere, this is hard to better!• I believe the Druid sacred groves to have been functionally identical with, and a direct continuity of, ley mark-clumps.• I am in the sacred grove with a priestess in the last surviving matriarchal, communal culture on earth.• As he followed his partner through the grove, the stammering policeman limped from his run-in with the pot.• Meekly he followed Drumhead up the sandy embankment toward the willow grove.olive/lemon/palm etc grove• The road led between lemon groves, and beyond them the sea sparkled in the distance.• These men also have olive groves and cold-press their own virgin oil.• He could be out on the patio, or walking among his lemon groves.• She often comments on politics in Lemon Grove and the rest of East County.• Presented to the city of Lemon Grove.• Out among the olive groves and white-washed villages, or in the streets and galleries, you realise how little has changed.• On a rocky unmade track through the olive groves, we might have strayed through a time warp into a Biblical landscape.• Just think of those lemon groves outside my aunt's villa in Ravello.nGroveTTRused in the names of roads 路〔用于路名〕 Lisson Grove 利森路Origin grove Old English grafgrove nounGroveLDOCE OnlineChinese
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grove
grove /ɡrəʊv $ ɡroʊv/
noun
grove of
a small grove of beech trees
olive/lemon/palm etc grove
He owns an orange grove near Tel Aviv.
2. Grove used in the names of roads:
Lisson Grove
▪ forest a very large area of land with a lot of trees growing closely together: In 1500, most of the country was forest. | the Black Forest in Germany
▪woods (also wood British English) an area of land covered with a lot of trees, that is smaller than a forest: Behind the house were the woods that we used to play in. | Follow the path through a small wood.
▪woodland an area of land that is covered with trees – used especially for describing the type of land in an area: The site covers 74 acres of beautiful ancient woodland.
▪rainforest a thick forest with tall trees, in tropical parts of the world that have a lot of rain: Tropical rainforests are home to over half of the planet’s plant and animal species. | the Indonesian rainforest
▪jungle an area of tropical forest where trees and large plants grow very closely together: the jungles of Borneo | The palace was hidden for centuries in Guatemala’s dense jungle.
▪grove a small group of trees, or an area of land planted with a particular type of fruit tree: The temple was built in the centre of a small grove of trees. | the olive groves of southern Spain
▪copse /kɒps $ kɑːps/ a small area of trees or bushes growing closely together: At the top of the field was a copse full of rabbits.
▪plantation a large area of trees planted for their wood, fruit etc: a rubber plantation
▪thicket /ˈθɪkət, ˈθɪkɪt/ a small group of bushes, plants, or small trees growing closely together: Tall bamboo thickets fringed the narrow river.
grove /ɡrəʊv $ ɡroʊv/
noun Language: Old English
Origin: graf
1. [countable] a piece of land with trees growing on itOrigin: graf
grove of
olive/lemon/palm etc grove
2. Grove used in the names of roads:
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