noun
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a place where a number of shrubs are planted
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shrubs collectively
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Origin of shrubbery
Vocabulary lists containing shrubbery
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Hey, there might be one more second over there, hiding in the shrubbery.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026
As I stood in the shrubbery near her window, Cindy waved her hand this way and that, directing me from inside about the best spot for the feeding station.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026
Others put up fences and prickly shrubbery to deter loiterers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 26, 2025
He showed them some shrubbery and Mary, who went to look, "fell in a hole".
From BBC ● Jul. 12, 2025
Billy’s smile as he came out of the shrubbery was at least as peculiar as Mona Lisa’s, for he was simultaneously on foot in Germany in 1944 and riding his Cadillac in 1967.
From "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut
This will then be used on landscaping projects and shrubberies across the Royal Parks.
From BBC ● Sep. 27, 2022
‘Flamboyance: A Topiary Menagerie’ A leisurely stroll through South Coast Botanic Garden will reveal more than 100 trees and shrubberies sculpted to look like flamingos, monkeys, dolphins and other creatures great and small.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 4, 2022
Save for some dangling black lampshade tassels on Laura Dern’s shell pink Armani Privé, and what looked like small shrubberies on Sandra Oh’s shoulders courtesy of Elie Saab, the decorative froufrou had been streamlined.
From New York Times ● Feb. 10, 2020
There is a VIP area, hidden by shrubberies, located between the restrooms and one of the boring machines.
From The Verge ● Dec. 19, 2018
Woe to the red fox that litters in the pinetum, or to the birds that make nests in the shrubberies!
From Garden-Craft Old and New by John D. Sedding
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