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n. A small wood or stand of trees lacking dense undergrowth.

n. A group of trees planted and cultivated for the production of fruit or nuts: an orange grove.

n. A small forest.

n. An orchard of fruit trees.

n. A place of worship

n. A smaller group of trees than a forest, and without underwood, planted, or growing naturally as if arranged by art; a wood of small extent.

n. A group of trees of indefinite extent, but not large enough to constitute a forest; especially, such a group considered as furnishing shade for avenues or walks; a small wood free from underbrush.

n. [In the authorized version of the Bible grove is used erroneously— As a translation (following the Septuagint and Vulgate) of the Hebrew word Asherah (pl. Asherim). The revised version retains Asherah, inserting “or obelisk” in the margin. It is now commonly understood as meaning a divinity or an image of a divinity worshiped by lewd rites, and as a variation in form of the name Astarte or Ashtaroth.

n. As a translation of the Hebrew word eshel in Gen. xxi. 33, rendered tree in 1 Sam. xxxi. 13, and in both passages in the revised version tamarisk tree.]

n. Synonyms Woods, Park, etc. See forest.

n. Same as groove

n.

n. a small growth of trees without underbrush

n. garden consisting of a small cultivated wood without undergrowth

"COOPER: And that smoke on the left-hand side of the screen, Walter saying that somewhere around that smoke the remnants of an entire Iraqi battalion who were laying in wait in what he described as a grove, discovered by the Kiowa scout helicopters that was moving in advance of the troops in the 7th Cavalry."

wood    forest    Woods   

the groves of academe   

wood    tope    tufty    pinery    pinetum   

grave   

Dove    Hove    Nov    Soave    bove    cove    dove    drove    gove    hove   

thicket    forest    bough    orchard    meadow    valley    avenue    bush    garden    plantation