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Small, hard, and chewy collection of plants
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shrubbery
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Word definitions for shrubbery in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Shrubbery \Shrub"ber*y\, n.; pl. Shrubberies . A collection of shrubs. A place where shrubs are planted. --Macaulay.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A planting of shrubs; a wide border to a garden where shrubs are thickly planted; or a similar larger area with a path winding through it. 2 Shrubs collectively.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. an area where a number of shrubs are planted a collection of shrubs growing together
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A shrubbery is a wide border to a garden where shrubs are thickly planted, or a similar larger area with a path winding through it. A singular shrub is also known as a bush.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ A neat lawn surrounded by rows of shrubbery hugged the base of the red-brick building. ▪ In the dream she and her father were walking together through the shrubbery . ▪ Now and then the gleam of a flashlight would wink out through ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1748, "place where shrubs are planted," from shrub + -ery . As "shrubs collectively," from 1777.
Usage examples of shrubbery.
It may, too, receive the same amount of outer decoration, in its shrubbery and plantations, given to any other style of building of like accommodation, and with an equally agreeable effect.
Vivid splashes of color blossomed in the shady forest, scarlets and blues and flashes of brillant lemon that lived in profusion in the foliage of the shrubbery.
Joe Mansell followed his host to this apartment, a severe room looking out onto the shrubbery at the side of the house, and remarked that having Betty and the children staying at the Cedars brought quite a lot of life into the place.
One of the shishi reached the top of the fence but before he could scramble over it a knife impaled him and he fell backwards into the shrubberies.
For from the edge of the shrubbery a shot sounded, and in the flash we saw Denby with the weapon raised.
But now they must have become angered by the continuous noise and excited by the smell of new blood, for all of a sudden a great form shot from a clump of low shrubbery into the midst of a struggling mass of humanity.
This noble terrace is screened from the north by a luxuriant shrubbery, from which arises an archway of massive proportions, erected chiefly to shut out the view of an unpicturesque object.
As he crouched in hiding among the unkempt shrubbery which so short a while since had been the delight and pride of the wife he no longer recalled, an Arab and an Abyssinian wheeled their mounts close to his position as they slashed at each other with their swords.
He heard Auris gabble something to the humbugs again, high and shrill, looked back as he reached the bushes, and saw her already outside, running towards the shrubbery on his right.
All the way from the plain where I had awoke to the walls of the city stood booths, drinking-places, and gardens divided by labyrinths of canals, and embowered in shrubberies that seemed coming into leaf and flower as we looked, so swift was the process of their growth.
When the judge and Sergeant Hoong had stepped out, Ma Joong and Chiao Tai pulled the boat on land and pushed it under the shrubbery.
Title: Hardy Perennials and Old Fashioned Flowers Describing the Most Desirable Plants, for Borders, Rockeries, and Shrubberies.
I went through a shrubbery, and along a passage beside a big house standing in its own grounds, and so emerged upon the road towards Kew.
Through the shattered window, Mayberry saw Sleeper Groth turning just below, to aim off into the trees beyond the shrubbery.
Pugs horse had an irritating tendency to want to stop every dozen feet to crop grass or nibble at shrubbery, ignoring Pugs frantic kicks to the side, while the Princesss excellently trained horse responded instantly to the slightest touch of her crop.