From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary EnglishRelated topics: Forestrygrovegrove /ɡrəʊv $ ɡroʊv/●くろまる○しろまる○しろまる noun1[countable]TAF a piece of land with trees growing on itgrove ofa small grove of beech treesolive/lemon/palm etc groveHe owns an orange grove near Tel Aviv.► see thesaurus at forest2 →GroveExamples from the Corpusgrove• a lemongrove• I was awestruck in the maplegrove, immersed there in the luminescent yellow all around.• His island, she mused, as she drove through almond and olivegroves.• The densepalmgrove had been cleared and hundreds of casuarina trees chopped down and grubbed out.• the redwoodgroves of NorthernCalifornia• As a description of a sacredgrove, with its legends, character and atmosphere, this is hard to better!• I believe the Druid sacred groves to have been functionally identical with, and a directcontinuity of, ley mark-clumps.• I am in the sacred grove with a priestess in the last survivingmatriarchal, communalculture on earth.• As he followed his partner through the grove, the stammeringpolicemanlimped from his run-in with the pot.• Meekly he followed Drumhead up the sandyembankment toward the willowgrove.olive/lemon/palm etc grove• The road led between lemon groves, and beyond them the sea sparkled in the distance.• He could be out on the patio, or walking among his lemon groves.• She often comments on politics in Lemon Grove and the rest of EastCounty.• Presented to the city of Lemon Grove.• Out among the olive groves and white-washed villages, or in the streets and galleries, you realise how little has changed.• On a rocky unmade track through the olive groves, we might have strayed through a time warp into a Biblicallandscape.• Just think of those lemon groves outside my aunt's villa in Ravello.GroveGroveTTRused in the names of roadsLisson Grove →groveOrigingroveOld Englishgraf