grove Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a small growth of trees without underbrush
  2. noun garden consisting of a small cultivated wood without undergrowth
    woodlet; orchard; plantation.

WordNet

Grove noun
Etymology
AS. graf, fr. grafan to dig. The original sense seems to have been a lane cut through trees. See Grave, v., and cf. Groove.
Definitions
  1. 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. ✍ 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.

Webster 1913