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Look up: Orchard

  1. Orchard
    Orchard is a township in Wayne County Illinois, USA Orchard is a town in Fort Bend County Texas, USA Orchard is a village in Antelope County Nebraska, USA Orchard is a city in Mitchell County Iowa, USA
    Found on http://fas.org/news/reference/probert/GL

  2. Orchard
    Or"chard noun [ Anglo-Saxon ortgeard , wyrtgeard , lit., wortyard, i. e., a yard for herbs; wyrt herb + geard yard. See Wort , Yard inclosure.] 1. A garden. [ Obsolete] 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 n …
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/O/29

  3. orchard
    1. A garden. ... 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. ... <botany> Orchard grass, a bright-coloured American oriole (Icterus spurius), which frequents orchards. It is smal …
    Found on http://cancerweb.ncl.ac.uk/cgi-bin/omd?o

  4. Orchard
    An `orchard` is an intentional planting of trees or shrubs maintained for food production. Most orchards comprise either fruit or nut-producing trees (see fruit trees), for commercial production. Orchards are also sometimes a feature of large gardens, where they serve an aesthetic as well as a productive purpose. Most temperate-zone orchards are laid out in a regular grid, with a grazed or mown grass or bare soil base that makes maintenance and ...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orchard

  5. Orchard
    An `orchard` is an intentional planting of trees or shrubs maintained for food production. Most orchards comprise either fruit or nut-producing trees (see fruit trees), for commercial production. Orchards are also sometimes a feature of large gardens, where they serve an aesthetic as well as a productive purpose. Most temperate-zone orchards are laid out in a regular grid, with a grazed or mown grass or bare soil base that makes maintenance and ...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orchard

  6. Orchard
    • (n.) 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. • (n.) A garden.
    Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning

  7. orchard
    (from the article `pruning`) ...of a plant, tree, or vine that are not requisite to growth or production, are no longer visually pleasing, or are injurious to the health or ...
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/o/27

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7 January 2009

This day in history:
Calais, the last English possession on the mainland of France, was regained by the French on New Year's Eve 1558 when the defenders were drunk. The kings of England once ruled more of France than the French kings themselves, but over centuries their French possessions were whittled away to the point where by 1453 all that was left was Calais and the small territory around it. read more

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