A Grammatical Dictionary of Botanical Latin

Grove (Engl.), “a smaller group of trees than a forest often without underwood and planted or growing naturally as if arranged by art; a wood of small extent; a planting of fruit or nut trees, an orchard” (WIII); thicket, q.v., a wood of limited extent: lucus,-i (s.m.II), abl. sg. luco, gen. pl. lucorum: a grove, a wood of apparently limited extent; nemus,-oris (s.n.III), nom. & acc. pl. nemora: an open woodland, a wood with glades and pasture land for cattle, grove, forest; see glade; see -etum,-i (s.n.II); see glade; see virgultum,-i (s.n.II); see woodland.

- lucus palmarum, a palm-tree grove.

An even smaller grove: luculus,-i (s.n.II), abl. sg. luculo.

Arbustum,-i (s.n.II), abl. sg. arbusto: “a place where trees are planted, an orchard, plantation, a vineyard planted with trees onto which the vines are trained: as opposed to by poles” (Lewis & Short); a grove.

Grava,-ae (s.f.I), grova,-ae (s.f.I): a grove (Eng. Medieval Latin; Latham).

GRAVA. TheLaw.com Law Dictionary & Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed. In old English law. A grove; a small wood; a coppice or thicket Co. Litt 4b. A thick wood of high trees. Blount (March 25, 2018).