grove

grove
    n 1: a small growth of trees without underbrush
    2: garden consisting of a small cultivated wood without
       undergrowth [syn: {grove}, {woodlet}, {orchard},
       {plantation}]
    

Grove \Grove\ (gr[=o]v), n. [AS. graf, fr. grafan to dig. The
   original sense seems to have been a lane cut through trees.
   See {Grave}, v., and cf. {Groove}.]
   A smaller group of trees than a forest, and without
   underwood, planted, or growing naturally as if arranged by
   art; a wood of small extent.
   [1913 Webster]

   Note: The Hebrew word Asherah, rendered grove in the
         Authorized Version of the Bible, is left untranslated
         in the Revised Version. Almost all modern interpreters
         agree that by Asherah an idol or image of some kind is
         intended.
         [1913 Webster]
    

Grove
(1.) Heb. 'asherah, properly a wooden image, or a pillar
representing Ashtoreth, a sensual Canaanitish goddess, probably
usually set up in a grove (2 Kings 21:7; 23:4). In the Revised
Version the word "Asherah" (q.v.) is introduced as a proper
noun, the name of the wooden symbol of a goddess, with the
plurals Asherim (Ex. 34:13) and Asheroth (Judg. 3:13).

  The LXX. have rendered _asherah_ in 2 Chr. 15:16 by "Astarte."
The Vulgate has done this also in Judg. 3:7.

  (2.) Heb. 'eshel (Gen. 21:33). In 1 Sam. 22:6 and 31:13 the
Authorized Version renders this word by "tree." In all these
passages the Revised Version renders by "tamarisk tree." It has
been identified with the Tamariscus orientalis, five species of
which are found in Palestine.

  (3.) The Heb. word 'elon, uniformly rendered in the Authorized
Version by "plain," properly signifies a grove or plantation. In
the Revised Version it is rendered, pl., "oaks" (Gen. 13:18;
14:13; 18:1; 12:6; Deut. 11:30; Josh. 19:33). In the earliest
times groves are mentioned in connection with religious worship.
The heathen consecrated groves to particular gods, and for this
reason they were forbidden to the Jews (Jer. 17:3; Ezek. 20:28).
    

Grove, OK (city, FIPS 31600)
  Location: 36.59525 N, 94.78743 W
  Population (1990): 4020 (2279 housing units)
  Area: 22.2 sq km (land), 7.6 sq km (water)
  Zip code(s): 74344
    

Grove, OK -- U.S. city in Oklahoma
   Population (2000):    5131
   Housing Units (2000): 2807
   Land area (2000):     9.014379 sq. miles (23.347133 sq. km)
   Water area (2000):    0.054273 sq. miles (0.140566 sq. km)
   Total area (2000):    9.068652 sq. miles (23.487699 sq. km)
   FIPS code:            31600
   Located within:       Oklahoma (OK), FIPS 40
   Location:             36.588611 N, 94.783110 W
   ZIP Codes (1990):     74344
   Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
   Headwords:
    Grove, OK
    Grove
    

50 Moby Thesaurus words for "grove":
      batch, bocage, bosk, bottom, bottom glade, bottoms, bunch, clump,
      cluster, coppice, copse, crop, dale, dell, dingle, gap, gill, glen,
      group, grouping, groupment, hassock, holt, hurst, intervale, knot,
      lot, lunar rill, mess, orchard, pass, ravine, shaw, shock, slew,
      spinney, stook, strath, thicket, tope, trench, trough, tuft,
      tussock, vale, valley, wadi, wisp, wood lot, woodlet