The Collaborative International Dictionary
Orchard \Or"chard\, n. [AS. ortgeard, wyrtgeard, lit., wortyard, i. e., a yard for herbs; wyrt herb + geard yard. See Wort, Yard inclosure.]
A garden. [Obs.]
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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.
Orchard grass (Bot.), a tall coarse grass ( Dactylis glomerata), introduced into the United States from Europe. It grows usually in shady places, and is of value for forage and hay.
Orchard house (Hort.), a glazed structure in which fruit trees are reared in pots.
Orchard oriole (Zool.), a bright-colored American oriole ( Icterus spurius), which frequents orchards. It is smaller and darker thah the Baltimore oriole.
WordNet
Usage examples of "orchard grass".
Hens ran in the orchard grass, and a she-goat was tethered to graze there.
She had shed fruit widely over the orchard grass, and it smelled like all the honeycombs of the forest, rich as perfume.
The kitchen cat meauwed at me from the orchard grass, and I laid my hands on it to try to take that shape, only to burst out of the attempt with heart pounding in a wild panic.
And even as he said and meant it, he saw again Brother Wolstan prone and bleeding in the orchard grass, and Meriet’.
Now it cascaded its spring blossom in droplets of white on the rough orchard grass.
I mean to spend at least two hours tomorrow lying out in the orchard grass, thinking of absolutely nothing.
Then, every muscle aching, he went to the stream that ran through the thick orchard grass.
He'd watered both mounts an hour before dawn at a chance run of snow-melt, so they were happy to drop their heads and graze the hurt from their muzzles in the sweet-scented orchard grass and wild onion growing in the dappled shade.