1
: a small wood without underbrush
a picnic grove
2
: a planting of fruit or nut trees
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Only instead of taking place in a suburban convention center, it's held in a delightfully classic, very remote tented camp in an acacia grove overlooking a water hole with a resident hippo.
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Jesse Ashlock, Condé Nast Traveler, 4 Apr. 2024
Since then, parks department staff have planted additional trees in the grove.
—Chad Murphy, The Enquirer, 21 Mar. 2024
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Jesse Ashlock, Condé Nast Traveler, 4 Apr. 2024
Since then, parks department staff have planted additional trees in the grove.
—Chad Murphy, The Enquirer, 21 Mar. 2024
See all Example Sentences for grove
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“Grove.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/grove. Accessed 4 May. 2024.
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grove
noun
: a small wood
especially
: a group of trees without underbrush
an orange grove
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