(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.
Example Sentences:
(1) The first stop in this arid place of poor farms and orchards clinging to the dry soil is Rafah, cut off by the border from its Palestinian counterpart.
(2) "Moody's believes these assumptions to be sound," said Orchard.
(3) The major part of insecticides and fungicides used for orchard protection were examined.
(4) Pistachio nut samples taken during various stages of development from orchards in Iran, showed that contamination with fungi occurred mainly during the later stages of nut development.
(5) Patients were paired on the basis of cutaneous end point titrations to timothy, orchard, and Bermuda grass-pollen extracts.
(6) Through the searing summer heat, the Mexican immigrant to California’s Central Valley and his family endured a daily routine of collecting water in his pickup truck from an emergency communal tank, washing from buckets and struggling to keep their withering orchard alive while they waited for snow to return to the mountains and begin the cycle of replenishing the aquifer that provides water to almost all the homes in the region.
(7) Intradermal skin tests were performed using six allergens: house dust (HD), ragweed, Japanese cedar, orchard grass, candida and broncasma berna.
(8) Neat and tidy orchards, well-stocked farms lined the wayside, and the British soldier did not fail to admire the place and its inhabitants.
(9) Support for the latter came from observation of an increased paraoxon:parathion ration in air samples collected downwind from the orchard.
(10) As Cricket NSW doctor John Orchard noted, “grade cricket does not have the infrastructure in place to safely monitor and manage heatstroke in what is essentially an amateur, volunteer-run organisation”.
(11) Set on the side of a shallow green valley of fields, coppices and orchards, Rakinice is an astonishingly beautiful spot, but you cannot eat the scenery.
(12) After filling your belly with the very best British cream tea, sitting on a deckchair surrounded by fruiting apple trees at The Orchard Tea Garden, why not take a dip in the refreshingly cool and clear Byron's Pool, where Lord Byron himself was fond of a skinny dip.
(13) In response, Samuel Adams started producing Angry Orchard , which became the country's top-selling cider only eight months after it launched, and a hard iced tea called Twisted Tea.
(14) Every summer, around this time of the year, Limbert goes to a sour cherry orchard near his house in Virginia to make jam, a Persian tradition.
(15) It was also noticed that crops exerted more beneficial effects on microbial activities than orchards, and the dehydrogenase test was the most reliable parameter to reveal this fact.
(16) The technique is demonstrated using various seeds known to form part of the diet of the bullfinch (Pyrrhula pyrrhula L.), a pest of commercial orchards in southeast England.
(17) Orchard hygiene is a big thing for us,” says Simpson.
(18) To assess the potential effects on neuropsychiatric performance of chronic occupational exposure to organophosphate insecticides, we performed a prospective longitudinal study of a cohort of apple orchard pesticide applicators and a comparison cohort of beef slaughter-house workers.
(19) Until recently, Ray Pool was the proud owner of a bountiful, lovingly tended orchard of peaches.
(20) The NIST has produced and is in the process of certifying two new leaf CRMs, SRM1515 Apple Leaves and SRM 1547 Peach Leaves, as replacements for the no longer available NBS Orchard Leaves and the almost depleted Citrus Leaves.