1
: a small wood without underbrush
a picnic grove
2
: a planting of fruit or nut trees
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The roughly 2,700-square-foot main house sits amid more than 4,000 macadamia trees, along with avocado, finger lime, apple banana, and tangerine groves, offering sweeping ocean and landscape views from a broad lanai.
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Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 6 Oct. 2025
Land and infrastructure critical to food production, including tree crops like olive groves and fruit orchards, and fields for growing vegetables, have been virtually wiped out.
—Kim Hjelmgaard, USA Today, 6 Oct. 2025
As the population increased, apartments, shopping centers, offices and warehouses replaced many of the orange groves and forests that once surrounded Orlando.
—Gisela Salomon, Fortune, 2 Oct. 2025
The park, well-known for its groves of towering giant sequoias—including the famous General Sherman Tree, the largest tree on Earth by volume—promises a moment of awe for all who explore it.
—Emily Lapointe, Outside Online, 30 Sep. 2025
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Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 6 Oct. 2025
Land and infrastructure critical to food production, including tree crops like olive groves and fruit orchards, and fields for growing vegetables, have been virtually wiped out.
—Kim Hjelmgaard, USA Today, 6 Oct. 2025
As the population increased, apartments, shopping centers, offices and warehouses replaced many of the orange groves and forests that once surrounded Orlando.
—Gisela Salomon, Fortune, 2 Oct. 2025
The park, well-known for its groves of towering giant sequoias—including the famous General Sherman Tree, the largest tree on Earth by volume—promises a moment of awe for all who explore it.
—Emily Lapointe, Outside Online, 30 Sep. 2025
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“Grove.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/grove. Accessed 12 Oct. 2025.
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grove
noun
: a small wood
especially
: a group of trees without underbrush
an orange grove
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