Grove Spelling Dictionary
Index of groves

The groves

Three groves, nine trees. Pick a grove to see its trees, or go straight to a tree from the list under each one.

Citrus and Its Cousins

Names that travelled: one from Cantonese, one from a French missionary, one invented in a government breeding shed.

The Mediterranean Grove

Pod, drupe and silver leaf, and three names that came into English through Greek or Latin and kept the letters they arrived with.

The Nut Grove

Trees grown for the kernel, named after a Persian nut, a Melbourne chemist and a word recorded on the Virginia coast.