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单词 grove
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Definition of grove in English:

grove

noun ɡrəʊvɡroʊv
  • A small wood or other group of trees.

    an olive grove
    in place names Ladbroke Grove
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Their farm is a brisk 15-minute walk from the road through lush coconut groves.
    • Everywhere you turn there are almond, fig, lemon and orange trees and olive groves.
    • His sustainable productive chain begins at the small coconut groves that are farmed by rural communities.
    • They take possession of the villagers' olive groves without offering payment or alternatives.
    • We walked along the beach at a quick pace and soon reached the grove.
    • There is one large volcanic rock and several coconut tree palm groves.
    • The river valleys are loaded with date palm groves, vineyards, and sunflower fields.
    • Each had its own garden, with vines and avocados and small citrus groves.
    • We skimmed groves of ancient olive trees and ribs of bleached white stone.
    • Orchards and mulberry groves were uprooted to pave the way for more cotton.
    • Around the beginning of the 20th century, a neighbor planted a grove of American chestnuts.
    • Most people live in individual family compounds surrounded by banana groves and fields and scattered across the hillsides.
    • When they had reached a small grove of trees, the girl turned to look into her love's eyes.
    • Here, on one side, is a terraced olive grove dropping away towards the sea.
    • The terrain near Alicante is quite nice with terraced olive groves on the mountainsides and orange groves in the valleys.
    • The valley is a riot of wildflowers, aspen groves, and tumbling rivers.
    • The woods in front of them degenerated into a thick grove of bamboo and undergrowth.
    • The women who met in the secluded sacred grove became sisters joined by blood.
    • There is plenty of water coming down the mountains, and he intends to plant citrus groves, I think.
    • For the men, the job ends as soon they fetch raw materials from nearby palm groves.
    Synonyms
    copse, wood, thicket, coppice, group of trees
    orchard, plantation
    British spinney
    archaic hurst, holt

Phrases

  • the groves of Academe

    • The academic world.

      younger men lured from the groves of Academe
      Example sentencesExamples
      • She moved from the groves of Academe to the National Security Council in 1989.
      • It is also precisely what we need to sustain us during our sojourn in the groves of Academe.
      • At the same time, it began entering the groves of academe.
      • When not sweating in the groves of Academe, he's busy writing a fine blog devoted to ‘Exploring migrants, exiles, expatriates, and out-of-the-way peoples, places, and times, mostly in the Asia-Pacific region.’
      • Or maybe in the groves of academe, not all offensive speech is created equal.
      • But the biggest threat lurks in the leafy groves of academe.

Derivatives

  • grovy

  • adjective

Origin

Old English grāf, of Germanic origin.

Rhymes

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

Definition of grove in US English:

grove

nounɡroʊvɡrōv
  • A small wood, orchard, or group of trees.

    an olive grove
    in place names Ocean Grove
    Example sentencesExamples
    • There is plenty of water coming down the mountains, and he intends to plant citrus groves, I think.
    • The terrain near Alicante is quite nice with terraced olive groves on the mountainsides and orange groves in the valleys.
    • Here, on one side, is a terraced olive grove dropping away towards the sea.
    • Orchards and mulberry groves were uprooted to pave the way for more cotton.
    • For the men, the job ends as soon they fetch raw materials from nearby palm groves.
    • Each had its own garden, with vines and avocados and small citrus groves.
    • Everywhere you turn there are almond, fig, lemon and orange trees and olive groves.
    • Their farm is a brisk 15-minute walk from the road through lush coconut groves.
    • Most people live in individual family compounds surrounded by banana groves and fields and scattered across the hillsides.
    • When they had reached a small grove of trees, the girl turned to look into her love's eyes.
    • There is one large volcanic rock and several coconut tree palm groves.
    • Around the beginning of the 20th century, a neighbor planted a grove of American chestnuts.
    • The valley is a riot of wildflowers, aspen groves, and tumbling rivers.
    • They take possession of the villagers' olive groves without offering payment or alternatives.
    • His sustainable productive chain begins at the small coconut groves that are farmed by rural communities.
    • We skimmed groves of ancient olive trees and ribs of bleached white stone.
    • The women who met in the secluded sacred grove became sisters joined by blood.
    • We walked along the beach at a quick pace and soon reached the grove.
    • The river valleys are loaded with date palm groves, vineyards, and sunflower fields.
    • The woods in front of them degenerated into a thick grove of bamboo and undergrowth.
    Synonyms
    copse, wood, thicket, coppice, group of trees

Phrases

  • the groves of Academe

    • The academic world.

      younger men lured from the groves of Academe
      Example sentencesExamples
      • When not sweating in the groves of Academe, he's busy writing a fine blog devoted to ‘Exploring migrants, exiles, expatriates, and out-of-the-way peoples, places, and times, mostly in the Asia-Pacific region.’
      • She moved from the groves of Academe to the National Security Council in 1989.
      • At the same time, it began entering the groves of academe.
      • Or maybe in the groves of academe, not all offensive speech is created equal.
      • It is also precisely what we need to sustain us during our sojourn in the groves of Academe.
      • But the biggest threat lurks in the leafy groves of academe.

Origin

Old English grāf, of Germanic origin.

 
 
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