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# garden

«garden» in Mova's school dictionary: **a piece of land where people grow flowers, fruit or…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (garden, gardens); verb (garden, gardens, gardened, gardening)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A garden is a piece of land where people grow flowers, fruit or vegetables. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/garden/#m1)

2) In the UK, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand the garden is also the grass area around a house; Americans often call it the yard. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/garden/#m2)

3) Gardens are also a public park with plants, like botanical gardens. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/garden/#m3)

4) To garden is to work in a garden, planting, weeding and watering. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/garden/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

A place with rows of plants counted, or a rectangle with area and perimeter (fence). In science: plants need sun, water and soil; a school garden shows how seeds grow. In stories: secret gardens, gnomes. Phrases: «vegetable garden», «back garden», «flower garden», «gardening gloves».

### examples

- The garden has 6 rows of 8 tomato plants. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/garden/#x1)
- A garden is 10 m long and 4 m wide. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/garden/#x2)
- She picked 25 carrots from her garden. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/garden/#x3)
- How much fence goes around the garden? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/garden/#x4)
- Our school has a garden where we grow beans. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/garden/#x5)
- Grandpa loves gardening on Saturdays. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/garden/#x6)
- The kids played football in the back garden. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/garden/#x7)
- We visited the botanic gardens and saw huge cactuses. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/garden/#x8)

### note

Rows × plants per row gives the total; length × width gives area; the fence around is the perimeter. Trap: fence means perimeter, soil or grass means area. Wear gloves when gardening and wash your hands after touching soil.

### In the corpora

- [Gardens need regular weeding, mowing and watering or they quickly grow wild.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/12-cars-chores-and-the-shopping-list/15/)
- [Leafcutter ants do not eat the leaves they carry: they chew them to grow a fungus garden underground and eat the fungus.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/36-insects-six-legs-ants-bees-and-wasps/9/)
- [Many zoos turn elephant dung into compost for gardens, and in some countries it is even made into paper.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/83-elephant-house-herds-feet-food-mouse-myth/11/)
- [Picture a city garden at midnight: a fox trots past the bins and somewhere a rabbit freezes, then zigzags away.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/141-zootopia-real-foxes-and-rabbits/3/)
- [City foxes are active mostly at night and find food in gardens and bins, so they need smaller areas than country foxes.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/141-zootopia-real-foxes-and-rabbits/7/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «garden» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/garden/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.