Orchard /(?)/
Or·chard
Orchard
n.
- A garden. [Obs.]
- An inclosure containing fruit trees; also, the fruit trees, collectively; -- used especially of apples, peaches, pears, cherries, plums, or the like, less frequently of nutbearing trees and of sugar maple trees.
Phrases & Compounds
- Orchard grass
- a tall coarse grass (Dactylis glomerata), introduced into the United States from Europe. It grows usually in shady places, and is of value for forage and hay.
- Orchard house
- a glazed structure in which fruit trees are reared in pots.
- Orchard oriole
- a bright-colored American oriole (Icterus spurius), which frequents orchards. It is smaller and darker thah the Baltimore oriole.