orchard Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun garden consisting of a small cultivated wood without undergrowth
    grove; woodlet; plantation.

WordNet

Or"chard noun
Etymology
AS. ortgeard, wyrtgeard, lit., wortyard, i. e., a yard for herbs; wyrt herb + geard yard. See Wort, Yard inclosure.
Definitions
  1. A garden. Obs.
  2. 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.

Webster 1913