SHRUBBERY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does shrubbery mean? 

• SHRUBBERY (noun)
  The noun SHRUBBERY has 2 senses:

1. an area where a number of shrubs are planted

2. a collection of shrubs growing together

  Familiarity information: SHRUBBERY used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SHRUBBERY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An area where a number of shrubs are planted

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Hypernyms ("shrubbery" is a kind of...):

area; country (a particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography))

Sense 2

Meaning:

A collection of shrubs growing together

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("shrubbery" is a kind of...):

botany; flora; vegetation (all the plant life in a particular region or period)

Meronyms (members of "shrubbery"):

bush; shrub (a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems)

 Context examples 

The gardens and shrubberies would be kept in almost as high order as they are now.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

She was tired of the woods and the shrubberies—always so smooth and so dry; and the abbey in itself was no more to her now than any other house.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

She absented herself as little as possible from Lady Bertram, kept away from the East room, and took no solitary walk in the shrubbery, in her caution to avoid any sudden attack.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

I opened the glass-door in the breakfast-room: the shrubbery was quite still: the black frost reigned, unbroken by sun or breeze, through the grounds.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

He seems to have broken through the shrubbery and made for the road.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

We had reached the shrubbery which surrounded the house when Holmes pulled up.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He had followed her into the shrubbery with no idea of trying it.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Then outside in the shrubbery I heard a sort of howl like a dog's, but more fierce and deeper.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

As it was certain, however, that somebody was coming, Bingley instantly prevailed on Miss Bennet to avoid the confinement of such an intrusion, and walk away with him into the shrubbery.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

The first month after their marriage was spent with their friend at the Mansion-house; from whence they could superintend the progress of the Parsonage, and direct every thing as they liked on the spot;—could chuse papers, project shrubberies, and invent a sweep.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)