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grovy en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• /ˈɡɹəʊvi/ (UK)

Etymology

From grove + -y.

Meanings

1. Pertaining to or characterised by groves; situated in a grove.
   • In a grovy lawn of this forest there is a little mount, rising in a point to the height of a man, on which knights and other hunters are used to ascend when fatigued with heat and thirst, to seek some relief for their wants. 1828, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, volume II, London: William Harrison Ainsworth, page 105:
   • He turned into a side gallery that led into a grovy part of the garden, grading insensibly into the park proper. 1969, Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor, Penguin, published 2011, page 156:

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