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topiary
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Topiary \Top"i*a*ry\, a. [L. topiarius belonging to ornamental gardening, fr. topia (sc. opera) ornamental gardening, fr. Gr. ? a place.] Of or pertaining to ornamental gardening; produced by cutting, trimming, etc.; topiarian.
Topiary work, arbors, shrubbery, hedges, or the like, cut and trimmed into fanciful forms, as of animals, buildings, etc.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1590s, from Latin topiarius "of or pertaining to ornamental gardening," as a noun, "ornamental gardening, landscape gardening," also "an ornamental gardener," from topia "ornamental gardening," from Greek topia, plural of topion, originally "a field," diminutive of topos "place" (see topos). The noun is first recorded 1906, from the adjective.
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 (context uncountable English) Topiary gardening.
WordNet
n. a garden having shrubs clipped or trimmed into decorative shapes especially of animals
making decorative shapes by trimming shrubs or trees
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 have been shaped in this way. As an art form it is a type of living sculpture. The word derives from the Latin word for an ornamental landscape gardener, topiarius, a creator of topia or "places", a Greek word that Romans also applied to fictive indoor landscapes executed in fresco.
The plants used in topiary are evergreen, mostly woody, have small leaves or needles, produce dense foliage, and have compact and/or columnar (e.g., fastigiate) growth habits. Common species chosen for topiary include cultivars of European box ( Buxus sempervirens), arborvitae ( Thuja species), bay laurel (Laurus nobilis), holly (Ilex species), myrtle ( Eugenia or Myrtus species), yew ( Taxus species), and privet ( Ligustrum species). Shaped wire cages are sometimes employed in modern topiary to guide untutored shears, but traditional topiary depends on patience and a steady hand; small-leaved ivy can be used to cover a cage and give the look of topiary in a few months. The hedge is a simple form of topiary used to create boundaries, walls or screens.
Topiary, real name Jake Leslie Davis, born October 27, 1992, is a former hacker. He has worked with Anonymous, LulzSec, and similar hacktivist groups. He was an associate of the Internet group Anonymous, which has publicly claimed various online attacks, including hacking HBGary, Westboro Baptist Church, and Gawker. They have also claimed responsibility for the defacing of government websites in countries such as Zimbabwe, Syria, Tunisia, Ireland, and Egypt.
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.