orchards

noun

plural of orchard
as in gardens
a place where people grow fruit trees an apple orchard

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Recent Examples of orchards Many of the orchards at Apple Hill opened to the public in August, The Sacramento Bee reported. — Don Sweeney, Sacbee.com, 30 Sep. 2026 In commercial orchards apple maggots are commonly controlled with insecticides targeting adult flies. — Encyclopedia Britannica, 29 Sep. 2026 When the 2023 flood came, his crew scrambled to set up about 30 diesel pumps and sent water flowing onto a vineyard and orchards of almonds, pistachios and olives. — Ian James, Los Angeles Times, 26 Sep. 2026 Football, cross country, Saturday soccer games, football, apple orchards, pumpkin patches. — Joe Kinsey Outkick, FOXNews.com, 25 Sep. 2026 In addition to being a beloved brand, Flamingo Estate is also a real place, perched in the sunny hills of Los Angeles amid dreamy orchards and gardens. — Mina Dragani, Architectural Digest, 24 Sep. 2026 The Virginia Wine & Garlic Festival draws thousands for tastings and live music, while the Amherst Apple Harvest Festival celebrates local orchards with cider, pies, and family-friendly fun. — Abby Price, Travel + Leisure, 24 Sep. 2026 And last year, a Chinese court ordered him to remove all Sungold orchards in China and to pay Zespri nearly $780,000. — Jessie Yeung, CNN Money, 19 Sep. 2026 The apple orchards, hayrides, pumpkin patches and fall festivals cannot be beat. — Terry Eliasen, CBS News, 18 Sep. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for orchards
  1. gardens
  2. vineyards
  3. farms
  4. ranches
  5. farmsteads
Noun
  • Cut back catmint, hostas, and salvia in fall for tidier gardens, pest prevention, and improved flowering.
    — Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 28 Sep. 2026
  • Parts of the landscape date to work by Capability Brown, while the more recent gardens were overseen by landscape designer Kim Wilkie.
    — Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 26 Sep. 2026
Definition of gardens
Noun
  • Spend an afternoon exploring vineyards along the Long Island Wine Trail; Kontokosta Winery in Greenpoint is the North Fork’s only waterfront winery, and Borghese Vineyard and Winery is the region’s oldest vineyard and a lovely place to picnic.
    — Sarah Buder, AFAR Media, 2 Oct. 2025
  • As for the current harvest, some local vineyards, like Ascona on Skyline, are completely sold out and most of the fruit has been picked, according to vineyard manager Ken Swegles.
    — Laura Ness, Mercury News, 30 Sep. 2025
Definition of vineyards
Noun
  • The nearly 289,000-acre forest is interspersed with private property, farms, communities and roads, creating a patchwork of public and private lands across southern Illinois.
    — Christiana Freitag, Chicago Tribune, 4 Oct. 2026
  • There's a lot less diesel due to the Iran and Ukraine wars limiting refining capacity and crude production, and yet the need for diesel fuel is still essential from trucks and trains to generator farms and heating.
    — Cooper Katz McKim, NPR, 2 Oct. 2026
Definition of farms
Noun
  • Roughly one-third of the panther’s main habitat is on private ranches and timberlands that are frequently targeted for suburban development in southwestern Florida.
    — Timothy Randhir, The Conversation, 1 Oct. 2026
  • Along with apples and baked goods, the ranches offer hay rides, fishing ponds, pony rides, pumpkin patches and other activities.
    — Don Sweeney, Sacbee.com, 30 Sep. 2026
Definition of ranches
Noun
  • Some of the worst cases of the syndrome, for instance, have been on poor farmsteads in South Africa’s Eastern Cape.
    — Burkhard Bilger, New Yorker, 29 June 2026
  • Settlements and farmsteads spread across the state, and each year the timbermen marched deeper into the woods.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 10 June 2026
Definition of farmsteads

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“Orchards.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/orchards. Accessed 5 Oct. 2026.

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