grove

Significat

Noun

1. A small forest.
2. An orchard of fruit trees.
3. A place of worship.
4. A lodge of the Ancient Order of Druids.

Verb

1. To cultivate in groves; to grow naturally so as to form groves.
2. To cultivate with periodic harvesting that also serves to create order (gaps and lines of trees) to facilitate further harvesting.
3. To plough or gouge with lines.

Pronunciat com a (IPA)

/ɡɹəʊv/

Etimologia

From Middle English grove, grave, from Old English grāf, grāfa (“grove; copse”), from Proto-West Germanic *graib, *graibō (“branch, group of branches, thicket”), from Proto-Germanic *graibaz, *graibô (“branch, fork”).
Related to Old English grǣf, grǣfe (“brushwood; thicket; copse”), Old English grǣfa (“thicket”), dialectal Norwegian greive (“ram with splayed horns”), dialectal Norwegian greivlar (“ramifications of an antler”), dialectal Norwegian grivla (“to branch, branch out”), Old Norse grein (“twig, branch, limb”). More at greave.