🍏 A fruit tree area 🌱 To plant fruit trees

to orchard

1 8.3

To plant and care for fruit trees on land

verb
/ˈɔrʧərd/

: plantar árboles frutales

The farmers orchard their land by planting rows of apple trees in the spring.

Examples

In the backyard, she decided to orchard a small area with citrus trees for fresh fruit.
They orchard the new field with peach and cherry trees to increase their harvest.
Apple orchards.

Fiction book (1994)

Synonyms

to cultivate

vsto orchard

28 4.0

To prepare land for growing crops

is specific to planting and managing land for fruit trees

Compounds

apple orchard

9 1.6

A place with many apple trees that grow fruit

peach orchard

2 2.8

An area of land with many peach trees that grow fruit

orchard grass

1 6.1

A strong grass grown for hay to feed farm animals

orchard apple tree

1 2.1

A tree grown for its apples that people eat

orchard oriole

1 8.6

A small North American songbird whose male has chestnut and black feathers

How Extensive

to manage

765 2.7

to cultivate

28 4.0

to orchard

1 8.3

to tend

162 1.0

to plant

327 1.0

Surface Forms

orchard infinitive

orcharded past

orcharded past participle

orcharding present participle

orchards third person singular

Etymology

Orchard as a verb comes from the noun and keeps that same image of a 'plant-yard'. A helpful way to remember is that to orchard land means to plant or manage it for fruit trees.