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# orchard

«orchard» in Mova's school dictionary: **a piece of land with many fruit trees, like apple, pear…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (orchard, orchards)

### meaning for a pupil

An orchard is a piece of land with many fruit trees, like apple, pear, cherry or orange trees, often planted in rows. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/orchard/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In maths: a place with trees in rows; trees and fruit are counted; arrays of rows × trees. In everyday life: fruit picking on a farm in autumn. In science: bees pollinate the blossom so the fruit can grow. In stories: an old orchard where children play or hide.

### examples

- The orchard has 8 rows of 12 apple trees. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/orchard/#x1)
- Each tree in the orchard gives 50 apples. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/orchard/#x2)
- They picked 200 apples in the orchard. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/orchard/#x3)
- In spring the orchard is full of white blossom. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/orchard/#x4)
- Bees buzz from flower to flower in the cherry orchard. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/orchard/#x5)
- We went to an orchard to pick our own pears. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/orchard/#x6)
- The farmer sells juice from his orchard. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/orchard/#x7)
- The orange orchards in Florida are huge. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/orchard/#x8)
- So he continued his journey, and after walking a long way he reached an orchard. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/orchard/#x9)

### note

A place, not a number. Rows of trees: total = rows × trees per row. Trap: count trees and fruit separately. Spelling: orchard (not «orchid», which is a flower). Countable: an orchard, two orchards.

### Trees and pragmatics

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