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Definition of Groves
1. Noun. United States general who served as military director of the atomic bomb project (1896-1970).
Definition of Groves
1. Noun. (plural of grove) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Groves
1. grove [n] - See also: grove
Lexicographical Neighbors of Groves
Literary usage of Groves
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1922)
"groves and LC groves duly qualified as administrators with the will annexed ...
Forest M. groves had been, and at that time was, confined In the Westbrook ..."
2. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1909)
"groves AM) TREES, SACRED : In all stages of religious development the use of
groves as places of worship is attested. These groves were not the result of ..."
3. The old curiosity shop by Charles Dickens (1858)
"This is the Valiant Soldier by James groves,—Jem groves—honest Jem groves, ...
If any man has got anything to say again Jem groves, let him say it to Jem ..."
4. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1904)
"... leaving a hollow shaft thirty or forty feet high. The habitat of the cypress
is similar. The young groves are not so unmixed as those of the ..."
5. The Gentleman's Magazine (1824)
"Nor was their resort to woods and groves as much as surmised before the times of
Pliny and Tacitus, who wrote under the despotic influenceof the higher ..."
6. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1820)
"A New Song, to the tune of the groves of Blarney, being in Lamentation for the
unhappy death of Sir Daniel Donnelly, Kt. C. /. ..."
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