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ORANGERY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does orangery mean?
• ORANGERY (noun)
The noun ORANGERY has 1 sense:
1. a place where oranges are grown; a plantation of orange trees in warm climes or a greenhouse in cooler areas
Familiarity information: ORANGERY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A place where oranges are grown; a plantation of orange trees in warm climes or a greenhouse in cooler areas
Classified under:
Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession
Hypernyms ("orangery" is a kind of...):
glasshouse; greenhouse (a building with glass walls and roof; for the cultivation and exhibition of plants under controlled conditions)
plantation (an estate where cash crops are grown on a large scale (especially in tropical areas))
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