a small wood or forested area, usually with no undergrowth.
a grove of pines.
a small orchard or stand of fruit-bearing trees, especially citrus trees.
a grove of lemon trees.
Sir George, 1820–1900, English musicologist.
Robert Moses Lefty, 1900–75, U.S. baseball player.
a small wooded area or plantation
a road lined with houses and often trees, esp in a suburban area
( capital as part of a street name )
Ladbroke Grove
See forest.
First recorded before 900; Middle English; Old English grāf
A grove can be an orchard or a clump of trees that doesn't have much undergrowth and occupies a contained area, like an orange grove or a small shady grove of oak trees where you can have a picnic. You wouldn't call a forest or a large woods a grove — that's too big. And you wouldn't call two or three trees a grove either — that's too small. A grove is somewhere in between. You'll often hear the word refer to a group of trees cultivated by humans, often for commercial purposes, such as an apple grove planted to supply produce to grocery stores.
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Satellite images show tank tracks and destroyed structures in the area, with an olive grove more than 500m beyond the Yellow Line apparently torn down.
From BBC ● Jul. 30, 2026
David Sanchez, a 48-year-old painter and decorator, had just returned home to Cebreros after evacuating at the weekend to find that his small olive and pistachio grove had been consumed by the inferno.
From Barron's ● Jul. 27, 2026
You don’t need the most expensive bottle on the shelf, nor one that arrives with a romantic backstory about a hillside grove.
From Salon ● Jun. 16, 2026
Now, 30 years after its initial debut, a grove of “Wish Trees” is in bloom at the Broad museum.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 10, 2026
We turned off Rural Route 2 onto County Road 2435, which ran between the Snapfinger Cemetery and the oak grove.
From Each Little Bird That Sings by Deborah Wiles
In May, a pressurized tank of methyl methacrylate began to fail at the company’s facility in Garden Grove.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 18, 2026
My colleague Thomas Grove and I spent weeks reporting this out.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026
Grove owner Rick Caruso was among the bidders for Television City, formerly known as CBS Television City, last time it was on the market and could emerge as a possible bidder.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 11, 2026
This one won’t reach Walnut Grove till season 2.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026
He’d sent in Harmony Grove to name a new park over in England and it won him a five-hundret-dollar prize, but over on this side a-the ocean, folks thought it sounded tacky and countrified.”
From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns
Trees in treated areas were about four times more likely to survive than those in untreated portions of the same groves.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 26, 2026
In a neighborhood flanked by grapevines and orange groves on the east side of the San Joaquin Valley, people cannot drink the water from their faucets because it’s contaminated.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 10, 2026
Among them are villagers from Ikizkoy in the Mugla region, who have mobilised to protect their olive groves from plans to expand a nearby brown coal lignite mine.
From Barron's ● May 15, 2026
In practice, it means that olive groves, fields with crops and even the cemetery are, in effect, now out of bounds to their owners in the village.
From BBC ● May 10, 2026
Orange groves, failed movie stars, lamplit cocktail hours by the swimming pool, cigarettes, ennui.
From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt
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