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# grove

«grove» in Mova's school dictionary: **A small group of trees, or a small wood** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (a grove, groves)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A small group of trees, or a small wood. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grove/#m1)

2) An orchard of fruit trees, such as an orange grove or olive grove. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grove/#m2)

3) Used in street names: Elm Grove. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grove/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In stories and poems a grove is a quiet, shady, sometimes magical place; in geography, farming of olives and oranges. Phrases: olive grove, orange grove, a shady grove.

### examples

- We had a picnic in a shady grove of oak trees. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grove/#x1)
- Olive groves cover the hills in Greece. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grove/#x2)
- They picked oranges in the orange grove. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grove/#x3)
- The elves lived in a secret grove. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grove/#x4)
- My cousin lives on Maple Grove. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grove/#x5)
- Birds sang in the grove all morning. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grove/#x6)
- It is like entering a grove of chestnut and walnut-trees. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grove/#x7)

### note

Plural groves. A grove is smaller than a wood or a forest. Do not confuse with groove (a long cut) or with grovel.

### Trees and pragmatics

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