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or⋅chard

[awr-cherd]
–noun
1. an area of land devoted to the cultivation of fruit or nut trees.
2. a group or collection of such trees.

Origin:
bef. 900; ME orch(i)ard, OE orceard; r. ortyard, ME ortyerd, OE ortigeard (cf. Goth aurtigards garden), equiv. to ort- (comb. form akin to wort 2 ; later identified with L hortus garden) + geard yard 2
or·chard   (ôr'chərd)   
n.  
  1. An area of land devoted to the cultivation of fruit or nut trees.
  2. The trees cultivated in such an area.

[Middle English, from Old English orceard, alteration of ortgeard : perhaps wyrt, wort, plant; see wort1 + geard, yard; see gher-1 in Indo-European roots.]

Orchard

Or"chard\, n. [AS. ortgeard, wyrtgeard, lit., wortyard, i. e., a yard for herbs; wyrt herb + geard yard. See Wort, Yard inclosure.]

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.

Orchard grass (Bot.), 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 (Hort.), a glazed structure in which fruit trees are reared in pots.

Orchard oriole (Zool.), a bright-colored American oriole (Icterus spurius), which frequents orchards. It is smaller and darker thah the Baltimore oriole.
Language Translation for : orchard
Spanish: huerto,
German: der Obstgarten,
Japanese: 果樹園

orchard 
O.E. orceard "fruit garden," probably from wortgeard, from wort "vegetable, plant root" + geard "garden, yard" (the word also meant "vegetable garden" until 15c.), with first element infl. by L. hortus (in L.L. ortus) "garden," from PIE *ghor-to- "an enclosure," from base *gher- "to grasp, enclose" (see yard (1)).
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