orchard
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“I’m afraid I’m not good on dragons. I know the red-winged, the silver, the yellow, the starlit, the bearded, and the orchard dragon. But the sea is my specialism, not the sky.”
From Literature
Apples are also among the most heavily treated fruits, with pesticides used in particular to fight apple scab, the main fungal threat to orchards.
From Barron's
I tell him about the vegetable gardens, the orchards, the greenhouse, pigs, chickens, sheep, and goats.
From Literature
White, in comparing magazine writing to “finding an apple in an orchard and polishing it up and selling it on the street.”
Participants spend months learning how to plant orchards, raise free-range livestock and tap syrup from the thickets of maple and sycamore trees.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
