1
: a small wood without underbrush
a picnic grove
2
: a planting of fruit or nut trees
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Though many California growers complained about Mexican imports, some of their peers had avocado groves or related businesses in Mexico too.
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Daniel Miller, Los Angeles Times, 30 May 2025
Best View There’s no bad view along this hike, but the perspective from the grove of Torrey Pines gives you a broad field of vision that takes in the grasslands, cliffs, and Pacific that stretches on for eternity.
—Graham Averill, Outside Online, 30 May 2025
Brightbill arrives at the grove to see what has happened to his mother, and if she’s been reset.
—Emily Blackwood, People.com, 30 May 2025
And, in 2020 and 2021, fires burned through sequoia groves, killing thousands of ancient trees.
—Imtiaz Rangwala, The Conversation, 27 May 2025
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Daniel Miller, Los Angeles Times, 30 May 2025
Best View There’s no bad view along this hike, but the perspective from the grove of Torrey Pines gives you a broad field of vision that takes in the grasslands, cliffs, and Pacific that stretches on for eternity.
—Graham Averill, Outside Online, 30 May 2025
Brightbill arrives at the grove to see what has happened to his mother, and if she’s been reset.
—Emily Blackwood, People.com, 30 May 2025
And, in 2020 and 2021, fires burned through sequoia groves, killing thousands of ancient trees.
—Imtiaz Rangwala, The Conversation, 27 May 2025
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“Grove.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/grove. Accessed 8 Jun. 2025.
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grove
noun
: a small wood
especially
: a group of trees without underbrush
an orange grove
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