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
He showed them some shrubbery and Mary, who went to look, "fell in a hole".
From BBC ● Jul. 12, 2025
Light jazz played from unseen speakers in a grassy landscape ribboned with walkways and dotted with drought-tolerant shrubbery.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 1, 2025
“I have seen papers that had been apparently swept off the terraces upon the shrubbery between them and the lagoons,” Olmsted wrote.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
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
It consists of a nearly circular enclosure of about 470 acres, laid out on the approved principles of landscape gardening; its centre is enriched with lakes, plantations, shrubberies, and beds of flowers.
From Collins' Illustrated Guide to London and Neighbourhood by Anonymous
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