grove

Significado (Inglês)

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.

Sinônimos

copse

woods

forest

small wood

thicket

garden

coppice

wood

🪵

park

🏞️

orchard

clump

woodlet

bush

shrubbery

plantation

woodland

arbour

spinney

timberland

tope

tuft

tussock

bower

holt

shrub

tree group

antlers

boscage

bosk

brake

bramble

brushwood

chaparral

cluster

flower-garden

group

hedge

scrub

stand

timber

trees

wildwood

public garden

bosket

grove wood

cluster of trees

antler

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/ɡɹəʊv/

Etimologia (Inglês)

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.