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ORCHARD
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Garden consisting of a small cultivated wood without undergrowth
Synonyms:
grove; orchard; plantation; woodlet
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("orchard" is a kind of...):
garden (a plot of ground where plants are cultivated)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "orchard"):
apple orchard (a grove of apple trees)
lemon grove (a grove of lemon trees)
orange grove (grove of orange trees)
peach orchard (a grove of peach trees)
Context examples:
In cherry orchards, the scientists found, kestrels significantly reduced the number of birds that eat fruit.
(American kestrels, most common predatory birds in U.S., can reduce need for pesticide use, National Science Foundation)
She could neither sit still nor employ herself for ten minutes together, walking round the garden and orchard again and again, as if nothing but motion was voluntary; and it seemed as if she could even walk about the house rather than remain fixed for any time in the parlour.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
A name that I am so very well acquainted with; knew the gentleman so well by sight; seen him a hundred times; came to consult me once, I remember, about a trespass of one of his neighbours; farmer's man breaking into his orchard; wall torn down; apples stolen; caught in the fact; and afterwards, contrary to my judgement, submitted to an amicable compromise.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
It was sufficiently late in the year for the orchards to be ruddy with ripe apples; and in a few places the hop-pickers were already at work.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Apples from orchards with low bee diversity generally contained fewer seeds in them and weighed less than fruit from orchards with greater diversity and natural habitat close by.
(Diverse Bee Communities Best for Apple Orchards, U.S. Department of Agriculture)
I sought the orchard, driven to its shelter by the wind, which all day had blown strong and full from the south, without, however, bringing a speck of rain.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
The old orchard wore its holiday attire.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
The outbreak was linked to lychee orchard exposures where agrochemicals were routinely used, but not to consumption of lychees.
(Lychee deaths linked to pesticides, not the fruit, SciDev.Net)
It might be safely viewed with all its appendages of prosperity and beauty, its rich pastures, spreading flocks, orchard in blossom, and light column of smoke ascending.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
It is not to be thought that a troop of bowmen, with the wine buzzing in their ears, will be as soft-spoken as so many young clerks in an orchard.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
