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Grove

Dictionary of Collective Nouns and Group Terms | 1985 | Copyright

Grove

a small wood or group of trees for providing shade, forming avenues, etc. See also bosk.

Examples: grove of bayonets, 1889; of ears of wheat, 1667; of fruit trees, 1838; of their own kindred, 1793; of Athenian literature, 1849; of olives, 1667; of majestic palms, 1856; of spears, 1667; of trees.

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grove

A Dictionary of Ecology | 2004 | | Copyright

grove
1. A small wood, usually of less than eight hectares.

2. An area that is composed entirely of timber trees (without underwood) within a larger woodland which contains underwood.

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grove

A Dictionary of Plant Sciences | 1998 | | Copyright

grove
1. A small wood, usually of less than 8 hectares.

2. An area that is composed entirely of timber trees (without underwood) within a larger woodland which contains underwood.

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grove

The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English | 2009 | Copyright

grove / grōv/ • n. a small wood, orchard, or group of trees: an olive grove | [in place names] Ocean Grove. DERIVATIVES: grovy adj.

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Grove

A Dictionary of British Place-Names | 2003 | | Copyright

Grove, a common name, ‘(place at) the grove or coppiced wood’, OE grāf(a); examples include: Grove Notts. Grava 1086 (DB). Grove Oxon. la Graue 1188.

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grove

The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology | 1996 | | Copyright

grove small wood. OE. grāf, rel. to grǣfa brushwood, thicket.

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grove •behove, clove, cove, dove, drove, fauve, grove, interwove, Jove, mauve, rove, shrove, stove, strove, trove, wove •alcove • mangrove

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