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orange grove

orange grove

5 2.8
A piece of land planted with orange trees to grow oranges
  • noun
  • /ˈɔrɪndʒ ɡroʊv/
: naranjal
  • These people went to work in Southern California's burgeoning orange groves, cotton fields, and melon patches.
  • Florida orange grove
  • California orange grove
  • orange grove fruit

Coca-Cola wanted to cut it all down and put an orange Grove there to, to create Orange Crush.

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Examples

  • A pack of cats ran across the field and escaped into the orange grove.

    Fiction book (1996)
  • The sun shines bright, the beaches are wide and inviting... and the orange groves stretch as far as the eye can see.

  • I saw you in an orange grove.

  • The Colonel will be waiting for you at an orange grove behind the airport.

  • At the other end of the field, they saw the last soldiers going into the orange grove.

    Fiction book (1996)
  • The noise in the orange grove increased.

    Fiction book (1996)
  • I'm not working at the orange grove anymore.

  • After passing the coral bed, the ceiba tree, and the topiary, he reached the edge of the orange grove.

    Fiction book (1999)
  • Jackals howled in the orange grove, and fireflies glittered between the leaves.

    Fiction book (1996)
  • Sam's cousin in California runs a orange grove, and they're looking for some help.

Synonyms

orchard
vsorange grove
77 3.2

A piece of land with fruit or nut trees grown for food

is narrower and limited to land grown with one citrus tree type for sale
grove
vsorange grove
71 2.8

A small group of trees that grow close together, often planted for fruit

is larger and cultivated specifically to produce commercial citrus fruit

How Big

plantation
88 3.6
orange grove
5 2.8
garden
979 1.0

Surface Forms

orange grove singular
orange groves plural

Morphology

orange + grove

The meaning 'a piece of land planted with orange trees' is directly and compositionally derived from 'orange' (orange trees/fruit) + 'grove' (a small area of trees). This straightforward noun–noun combination follows normal English compounding and is cross-linguistically common, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily understand it.

Etymology

Orange grove is a simple name that creates the image of a small group of orange trees growing together in a grove, often planted in rows and heavy with fruit. That's why it means 'a piece of land planted with orange trees'.