noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
old
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It has a lovely old orchard full of damson trees, a paddock with goats and rare sheep and a sunny terrace.
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The cattle had to be rounded up from all the outlying fields and brought together in the old orchard behind the barn.
■ NOUN
apple
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Its hedged fields are sprinkled with oak trees, and apple orchards and half-timbered houses abound.
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We rode until we passed an overgrown meadow which must once have been part of an apple orchard .
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As you know, Edward destroyed his forces amongst the apple orchards of Evesham in 1264.
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Instead of barbed wire and endless gray mud, it was surrounded by apple orchards , gardens, rivers and lakes.
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In May 1994 1.7 hectares in a 20-hectare commercial apple orchard were planted with stands of Golden Delicious.
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And she owned the most land, much of it given over to an aged but productive apple orchard .
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He did locate the apple orchard from which Liebermann had composed a large picture, and he made a sketch of it.
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Also patron of apple orchards and catechists.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a peach orchard
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Do you know car loads of people have driven by the orchards this year?
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Her black bicycle is leaning against the orchard fence.
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I circled the house at a distance, passed through the orchard into the garden and stood amid the rows of broccoli.
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It is also fruit-growing country and the vineyards are interspersed with orchards of apple, plum and pear.
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It was near the peach orchard that the Confederates suffered one of their Worst blows.
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It was suddenly quiet in the orchard as the mist floated through the trees.
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Léonie went to the orchard to pick some vine leaves.
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The orchards are the hushed maids, fresh from convent ....