Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary - grove

 noun  Etymology: Middle English, from Old English graf  Date: before 12th century  1. a small wood without underbrush a picnic ~  2. a planting of fruit or nut trees GROVE  biographical name Sir George 1820-1900 English musicologist GROVEL  intransitive verb  (-eled or -elled; -eling or -elling)  Etymology: back-formation from ~ing prone, from ~ing, adverb, from Middle English, from gruf, adverb, on the face (from Old Norse a grufu) + -ling  Date: 1552  1. to creep with the face to the ground ; crawl  2.  a. to lie or creep with the body prostrate in token of subservience or abasement  b. to abase oneself  3. to give oneself over to what is base or unworthy ; wallow ~ing in self-pity  • ~er noun  • ~ingly adverb