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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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
At Ojai, Lewis wistfully performed the solo prelude off in Libbey Park shrubbery as if a dallying forest spirit summoning ghosts of festivals past.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 23, 2026
He showed them some shrubbery and Mary, who went to look, "fell in a hole".
From BBC ● Jul. 12, 2025
She quickly sprayed down shrubbery she could reach, saw a neighbor on his roof doing the same, then grabbed her purse, and opened the door and gates so the fire department would have access.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 25, 2025
He touches the border of the shrubbery with the rim of his racket and sets one or two wild irises nodding.
From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez
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
We only escaped by driving across the shrubberies and flower-beds of the Alameda.
From Wild Spain (Espa?a agreste) Records of Sport with Rifle, Rod, and Gun, Natural History Exploration by Walter J. Buck
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