ORCHARD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does orchard mean? 

• ORCHARD (noun)
  The noun ORCHARD has 1 sense:

1. garden consisting of a small cultivated wood without undergrowth

  Familiarity information: ORCHARD used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ORCHARD (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Garden consisting of a small cultivated wood without undergrowth

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

grove; orchard; plantation; woodlet

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 

When I took the road again next morning, I found that it lay through a succession of hop-grounds and orchards.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

My mother says the orchard was always famous in her younger days.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

They could help in the garden and orchard.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

"I am no better than the old lightning-struck chestnut-tree in Thornfield orchard," he remarked ere long.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

She sent a questing glance across the tall grass and in and out among the orchard trees.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

Where are the steadings, and orchards, and vineyards, which made France fair?

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

However, if some species aren’t visiting an orchard because of unfavorable landscapes beyond it, then the flower suffers, producing fewer seed and poorer fruit quality.

(Diverse Bee Communities Best for Apple Orchards, U.S. Department of Agriculture)

Orchard caretakers told the team that different nutrients and fertilizers were sprayed on the trees before flowering.

(Lychee deaths linked to pesticides, not the fruit, SciDev.Net)

There were great stables, where a dozen grooms and boys held forth, rows of vine-clad servants’ cottages, an endless and orderly array of outhouses, long grape arbors, green pastures, orchards, and berry patches.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

At the vicarage you passed through the orchard and the side hedge, coming out under the window of the lodger Tregennis.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)