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 Or·chard n.
 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.
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