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orchard

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1. orchard - Noun

2. Orchard - Proper noun

Meaning

A garden.

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.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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Let the public mind become corrupt, and all efforts to secure property, liberty, or life by the force of laws written on paper will be as vain as putting up a sign in an apple orchard to exclude canker worms. Horace Mann

My earliest memory is dreamlike: in a small orchard or garden I am carried on the arm, I believe, of my father; there was a group of grown-ups, my mother among them, and the group was slowly walking in the orchard, it seems toward the house. Immanuel Velikovsky

A real writer learns from earlier writers the way a boy learns from an apple orchard -- by stealing what he has a taste for, and can carry off. Archibald MacLeish

With everything Messina has the port, but for beautiful Palermo it is always just an orchard. Sicilian Proverb

One who doesn't appreciate the apple, won't appreciate the orchard. Afghan Proverb

He's free o' fruit that wants an orchard. Scottish Proverb

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