grove
A small forest.
Noun 4 meanings
A small forest.
A small forest with minimal undergrowth.
“Near-synonym: woodland”
An orchard of fruit trees.
A place of worship.
Verb 3 meanings
To cultivate in groves; to grow naturally so as to form groves.
To cultivate with periodic harvesting that also serves to create order (gaps and lines of trees) to facilitate further harvesting.
To plough or gouge with lines.
Etymology
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”).
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GROVE at a glance
GROVE has 5 letters and scores 9 points in Scrabble (G 2 + R 1 + O 1 + V 4 + E 1) and 11 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #7,678 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
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