grove

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n. 小树林

发音

UK /ɡɹəʊv/
US /ɡɹoʊv/

词形变化

groves 复数 groves groved groves 三单 groving groving 现在分词 groved 过去式 groved 过去分词

别名

gro

教材释义与例句

名词

小树林；果园

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A small forest.

    林子

    小树林

  2. 2.

    A small forest with minimal undergrowth.

    Near-synonym: woodland

  3. 3.

    An orchard of fruit trees.

  4. 4.

    A lodge of the Ancient Order of Druids.

  5. 5.

    A place of worship.

    宗教
v.
  1. 1.

    To cultivate with periodic harvesting that also serves to create order (gaps and lines of trees) to facilitate further harvesting.

    商务
  2. 2.

    To plough or gouge with lines.

    1823, Instinct, in "Sholto and Reuben Percy" (Thomas Byerley), The Percy Anecdotes: Original and Select, Volume 9: Instinct—Ingenuity, page 138, Very frequently, however, to shorten the distance to the upper nurseries, where they have to take the eggs, they project an arch of about ten inches in length, and half an inch in breadth, groved or worked into steps, on its upper surface, to allow of a more easy passage.

  3. 3.

    To cultivate in groves; to grow naturally so as to form groves.

    1984, Queensland Botany Bulletin, Issue 3, Department of Primary Industries, page 82, Virtually recognizable groving occurs in some A. aneura associations in the west. Further east some diffuse groving may occur, but is difficult to recognize without the benefit of aerial photographs.

词汇关系

名词

同义词 3

plantation orchard woodlet

上位词 4

garden forest woods wood

下位词 1

orange grove

相关短语

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词源

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”). Related to Old English grǣf, grǣfe (“brushwood; thicket; copse”), Old English grǣfa (“thicket”), dialectal Norwegian greive (“ram with splayed horns”), dialectal Norwegian greivlar (“ramifications of an antler”), dialectal Norwegian grivla (“to branch, branch out”), Old Norse grein (“twig, branch, limb”). More at greave.

来源：wiktionary