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topiary
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Word definitions for topiary in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a garden having shrubs clipped or trimmed into decorative shapes especially of animals making decorative shapes by trimming shrubs or trees
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
Topiary is the horticultural practice of training live perennial plants by clipping the foliage and twigs of trees , shrubs and subshrubs to develop and maintain clearly defined shapes, whether geometric or fanciful. The term also refers to plants which ...
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Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 In the manner of a topiary. 2 Of, or relating to art of topiaries. n. 1 (context countable English) A garden decorated with shrubs which have been trimmed in artistic shapes, often of animals. 2 (context countable English) One such shrub or tree. 3 ...
Usage examples of topiary.
Now lush groundcovers such as bunchberry and pachysandra alternate with elaborate topiary displays.
Oregon grape and salal was as though trimmed artfully with electric shears and put Carolyn in mind of topiary in a Victorian English garden.
The foliage grew so close to the ground that sheep could reach it easily, the result being that every wilga bottom was mown as straight as a topiary hedge.
Glass photographs from its early glory days show an elaborate pile of building, recomplicated with trap-doors and hidden passages within, and topiary gardens and ha-has without.
Now lush groundcovers such as bunchberry and pachysandra alternate with elaborate topiary displays.
We rumble past privet hedges and under topiary arches to arrive at secluded lakefront homes where girls wait with satchels, standing very straight.
The grounds were trying to cheer her up with their ambitious topiaries, laughing fountains, a beach below so white it ached to be trampled.
Paths crisscrossed the lawn, fenced by topiary drimys and japonicas, elaborate cockerels, dogs, bears, concentric spheres, and one giant pair of shears.
When I saw you suddenly in the topiary garden this afternoon, I began to hope that Nigel was right and that just as you rescued Justin from Alicia before, you might save him again.
The noon sun pounded down, turning the blue tile of the floor pale, drawing knife edges of shadow around the topiaries and pergolas.
Here was topiary on a grand scale, arranged across Hilbert rather than Euclidean space.
Dhrun and Madouc went out into the gardens which surrounded Falu Ffail, and sauntered among the fountains, statues, flower beds, topiary and patches of green lawn.
Neither is it about flossing, although now that you've insisted upon knowing why I took such a long floss break, I must finish the account of my journey through topiary to the old carriage master's house at the far end of the estate.
And he touched his leatherette ticket-folder and dreamed of topiary clipped into the shape of March Hares and Mad Hatters, of frogs in footman's livery and strident queens.
Because of their resemblance to the ancient art of topiary, the trees were called Topes, as a class, though there were at least twenty different species easily distinguishable by the layman.