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单词 grove
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groven.

Brit. /ɡrəʊv/, U.S. /ɡroʊv/
Forms: Old English–Middle English gráf, Middle English grof(e, 1500s Scottish grave, grawe, 1500s–1600s groave, Middle English– grove.
Etymology: Old English gráf masculine and neuter < prehistoric *graiƀo- . Compare greave n.1The word is not found in any other Germanic language, and no Germanic or even Indogermanic root seems to be known to which it can plausibly be referred.
1.
a. A small wood; a group of trees affording shade or forming avenues or walks, occurring naturally or planted for a special purpose.Groves were commonly planted by heathen peoples in honour of deities to serve as places of worship or for the reception of images. Cf. 2a.
ΘΚΠ
the world > plants > by growth or development > defined by habit > tree or woody plant > wood or assemblage of trees or shrubs > [noun] > planted, cultivated, or valued > coppice or grove
hurst822
grove889
wood bough?c1225
wood lay?c1225
wood lind?c1225
wood rise?c1225
spring1396
firth?a1400
berwec1440
spring?c1475
grovet1504
coppice1538
copsewood1543
sherwood1562
hewt1575
copse1578
grove-crop1582
berrie1591
low wood1591
spinney1597
spinet1604
spring wood1607
roughet1616
oart1690
toft1706
under-grove1731
bosket1737
busket1803
889 Grant in Birch Cartul. Sax. II. 199 Heo hæbbe ða wudu-raeddenne in ðæm wuda ðe ða ceorlas brucaþ & ec ic hire lete to þæt ceorla graf.
1249–52 Visit. Ch. belong. St. Paul's Cathedr. (Camden) 13 Tenentes de ecclesia de Heubrege. Johannes Gobbe j acra et reddit vj đ..Johannes ad portam j parvam grovam et reddit iiij đ sed grova destructa est.]
a1250 Owl & Nightingale 380 He..hupth and stard suthe cove, And secheth pathes to the grove.
c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 236 Al swa þat wilde swin þat wroteð ȝeond þan grouen [c1300 Otho groue].
1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Rolls) VII. 11 Eueriche grove schoon wiþ horten treen and oþer tren ful of fruyt.
a1500 Lancelot of Laik (1870) 2481 The birdis may them hiding in the grawis Wel frome the halk.
1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid iv. ii. 46 Scho skipping furth..Gan throw the forrest fast and gravis glyde.
1513 G. Douglas in tr. Virgil Æneid xii. Prol. 190 In gresy gravis wandrand by spring wellis.
c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 13557 Þan se þai besyde..A grete herte in a grove.
1600 W. Shakespeare Midsummer Night's Dream iii. ii. 391 I,..like a forrester, the groues may tread. View more context for this quotation
1629 W. Mure True Crucifixe 1262 Such vncouth flames made men the Temple leaue Worship to Images in groaues to giue.
1735 W. Somervile Chace iii. 478 Proud Monarch of the Groves, whose clashing Beam His Rivals aw'd.
1770 O. Goldsmith Deserted Village 361 The breezy covert of the warbling grove.
1838 C. Thirlwall Hist. Greece (new ed.) IV. xxxiv. 358 The temple stood in a grove of fruit trees.
1856 A. P. Stanley Sinai & Palestine vii. 301 The forest..was a vast grove of majestic palms.
b. transferred and figurative.
ΘΚΠ
the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being gathered together > an assemblage or collection > [noun] > cluster
lumpc1380
clustera1400
knotc1400
community?1541
plump1553
clustering1576
clumpa1586
grove1667
skein1709
snuggle1901
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost iv. 982 When a field Of Ceres ripe for harvest waving bends Her bearded Grove of ears. View more context for this quotation
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost vii. 404 Through Groves Of Coral. View more context for this quotation
1671 J. Milton Paradise Regain'd iv. 241 The Olive Grove of Academe, Plato's retirement. View more context for this quotation]
1715 A. Pope tr. Homer Iliad I. ii. 182 The moving Host appears, With nodding Plumes and Groves of waving Spears.
1800 W. Wordsworth in W. Wordsworth & S. T. Coleridge Lyrical Ballads II. 157 They who live Shelter'd, and flourish in a little grove Of their own kindred.
1820 P. B. Shelley Prometheus Unbound iv. i. 143 Labour, and pain, and grief, in life's green grove Sport like tame beasts.
1849 F. W. Robertson Serm. (1866) 1st Ser. viii. 142 The groves of Athenian literature.
1849 W. M. Thackeray Pendennis (1850) I. xviii. 166 Into this certainly not the least snugly sheltered arbour among the groves of Academe, Pen now found his way.
1888 J. Ruskin Præterita III. ii. 49 The sunset shining down a long street through a grove of bayonets.
2. In English versions of the Bible, e.g. Coverdale's and the King James Version, used (following the Septuagint and the Vulgate) to render:
a. Hebrew Ashērāh, which is now understood as the name of a goddess or of a pillar serving as an idol.
ΘΚΠ
the world > the supernatural > deity > [noun] > idol > in monstrous or non-natural form
idolc1400
grove1535
the world > the supernatural > deity > other deities > [noun] > Syrian > Asherah
grove1535
Asherah1860
1535 Bible (Coverdale) 1 Kings xviii. 19 The foure hundreth and fiftye prophetes of Baal, and the foure hundreth prophetes of ye groue, which eate at Iesabels table.
1611 Bible (King James) 2 Kings xxi. 7 He set a grauen image of the grove [ Coverd. groue Idol, L. idolum luci, R.V. of Asherah, margin. or obelisk] that he had made, in the house. View more context for this quotation
1853 F. D. Maurice Prophets & Kings Old Test. vii. 108 The prophets of the grove were building their own power upon the degradation of the multitudes whom they drew after them.
b. Hebrew ēshel (Revised Version ‘tamarisk tree’).
ΚΠ
1535 Bible (Coverdale) 1 Sam. xxii. 6 Whyle Saul dwelt at Gibea vnder a groue in Rama.
1611 Bible (King James) Gen. xxi. 33 And Abraham planted a groue [margin. Or, Tree, Coverd. trees, L. nemus] in Beer-sheba. View more context for this quotation

Compounds

C1. General attributive.
a.
grove idol n. (See 2.)
ΚΠ
1535 Bible (Coverdale) 2 Kings xxi. 7 A groue Idol also which he had made, set he in the house.
grove-pine n.
ΚΠ
1873 Atlas of Michigan Pref. 20 Some varieties of ‘grove’ pine are found on a lighter soil.
grove-spirit n.
grove-tree n.
ΚΠ
1827 H. Steuart Planter's Guide (1828) 353 The adjoining space..is massed up with Grove Trees and Underwood.
grove-worship n.
ΚΠ
1845 A. Duncan Disc. 387 Abraham worshipped under an oak or in a grove..We shall thus be able to account for..the origin of grove-worship.
b.
grove-encircled adj.
ΚΠ
1833 T. Carlyle Sartor Resartus i. v, in Fraser's Mag. Dec. 671/1 A mystic grove-encircled shrine.
grove-like adj.
ΚΠ
1864 Ld. Tennyson Aylmer's Field in Enoch Arden, etc. 77 That old oak,..Once grovelike, each huge arm a tree.
C2.
grove-crop n. Obsolete a grove.
ΘΚΠ
the world > plants > by growth or development > defined by habit > tree or woody plant > wood or assemblage of trees or shrubs > [noun] > planted, cultivated, or valued > coppice or grove
hurst822
grove889
wood bough?c1225
wood lay?c1225
wood lind?c1225
wood rise?c1225
spring1396
firth?a1400
berwec1440
spring?c1475
grovet1504
coppice1538
copsewood1543
sherwood1562
hewt1575
copse1578
grove-crop1582
berrie1591
low wood1591
spinney1597
spinet1604
spring wood1607
roughet1616
oart1690
toft1706
under-grove1731
bosket1737
busket1803
1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis i. 13 In towns myd center theare sprouted a groauecrop, in arbours Greene weede thick shaded.
grove-dock n. Rumex Nemolapathum (Paxton Bot. Dict. 1840).
grove marjoram n. Obsolete wild marjoram, Origanum vulgare.
ΘΚΠ
the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > labiate plant or plants > [noun] > marjoram
organOE
marjorama1393
origanuma1398
origan?1440
organuma1450
orgament1552
grove marjoram1578
goat's marjoram1597
goat's organy1597
orgamy1609
field marjoram1640
origany1728
hop-plant1817
mastic1852
1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball ii. lxix. 236 Origanum Heracleoticum. Spanish Origan. Bastard Margerom. Origanum syluestre. Wilde Origan. Groue Margerom.
grove-snail n. (see quot.).
ΘΚΠ
the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Gastropoda > [noun] > order Pulmonifera > Inoperculata > family Helicidae > genus Helix > helix nemoralis or shell of
pooty1821
wood-snail1831
grove-snail1861
1861 R. T. Hulme tr. C. H. Moquin-Tandon Elements Med. Zool. ii. iii. 174 The Wood snail, Helix Sylvatica, Drap., and the Grove snail, H. Nemoralis, Linn.

Derivatives

ˈgroveless adj. devoid of groves.
ΘΚΠ
the world > the earth > land > landscape > fertile land or place > land with vegetation > [adjective] > wooded > lacking
woodless1551
unshrubbeda1616
unwooded1628
treeless1794
uncypressed1799
untimbered1808
shrubless1816
bushless1830
groveless1835
timberless1859
forestless1884
unforested1885
1835 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 37 686 Even were her shore~hills silvan no more—groveless the bases of all her remoter mountains.
1873 McArthur in Harp Renfrewsh. 391 These groveless banks, those ruined walls.
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