1
: a small wood without underbrush
a picnic grove
2
: a planting of fruit or nut trees
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Only instead of taking place in a suburban convention center, it's held in a delightfully classic, very remote tented camp in an acacia grove overlooking a water hole with a resident hippo.
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Jesse Ashlock, Condé Nast Traveler, 4 Apr. 2024
Since then, parks department staff have planted additional trees in the grove.
—Chad Murphy, The Enquirer, 21 Mar. 2024
With more than 62,000 acres of citrus groves, Polk County is one of the leading producers of oranges in Florida.
—Mike Schneider, Quartz, 14 Mar. 2024
Instead, it’s geared for farms that grow fruits and vegetables, like the apple orchards in Washington, the orange groves in Florida and the peach trees in Georgia.
—Daniel Desrochers, Kansas City Star, 9 Apr. 2024
At the same grove where the oranges were harvested, there was a plant to produce frozen orange juice concentrate.
—Sheah Rarback, Miami Herald, 6 Apr. 2024
Where to Stay on Crete With picturesque olive groves sloping down to sandy beaches, Elounda has become something of a Cretan Riviera.
—Eleni N. Gage, Travel + Leisure, 1 Apr. 2024
At one well, where neighbors lamented the loss of a mango grove, a handwritten logbook listed the water runs of a crisis: 3:15 and 4:10 one morning; 12:58, 2:27 and 3:29 the next.
—Damien Cave Atul Loke, New York Times, 31 Mar. 2024
Neighbors and extended families would come together to work the groves covering these hills a dozen miles north of Ramallah.
—Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 28 Mar. 2024
Jesse Ashlock, Condé Nast Traveler, 4 Apr. 2024
Since then, parks department staff have planted additional trees in the grove.
—Chad Murphy, The Enquirer, 21 Mar. 2024
With more than 62,000 acres of citrus groves, Polk County is one of the leading producers of oranges in Florida.
—Mike Schneider, Quartz, 14 Mar. 2024
Instead, it’s geared for farms that grow fruits and vegetables, like the apple orchards in Washington, the orange groves in Florida and the peach trees in Georgia.
—Daniel Desrochers, Kansas City Star, 9 Apr. 2024
At the same grove where the oranges were harvested, there was a plant to produce frozen orange juice concentrate.
—Sheah Rarback, Miami Herald, 6 Apr. 2024
Where to Stay on Crete With picturesque olive groves sloping down to sandy beaches, Elounda has become something of a Cretan Riviera.
—Eleni N. Gage, Travel + Leisure, 1 Apr. 2024
At one well, where neighbors lamented the loss of a mango grove, a handwritten logbook listed the water runs of a crisis: 3:15 and 4:10 one morning; 12:58, 2:27 and 3:29 the next.
—Damien Cave Atul Loke, New York Times, 31 Mar. 2024
Neighbors and extended families would come together to work the groves covering these hills a dozen miles north of Ramallah.
—Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 28 Mar. 2024
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“Grove.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/grove. Accessed 1 May. 2024.
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grove
noun
: a small wood
especially
: a group of trees without underbrush
an orange grove
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