topiary
Other forms: topiaries
If you practice topiary in your yard, you'll end up with shrubs and hedges in the shapes of unicorns, lions, and giant prairie dogs, since topiary means cutting bushes into fun shapes.
Topiary is probably the only art form that requires both muscle power and pruning shears: carefully trimming live shrubs to give them artful shapes. Large, groomed gardens are the most likely spots to see the result of topiary, either in the form of animals, geometric shapes, or mazes. The Latin root of topiary is topiarius, "pertaining to ornamental gardening," from the Greek topos, or "place."
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making decorative shapes by trimming shrubs or trees
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a garden having shrubs clipped or trimmed into decorative shapes especially of animalstype of:gardena plot of ground where plants are cultivated
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