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adjective
1.
(of a plant) clipped or trimmed into fantastic shapes.
2.
of or pertaining to such trimming.
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Topiary
is always a great word to know.
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| a chattering or flighty, light-headed person. |
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Origin:
1585–95; < Latin topiārius pertaining to landscape-gardening or to ornamental gardens, equivalent to topi(a) (plural) artificial landscape (< Greek tópia (singular topion), diminutive of tópos place) + -ārius -ary
1585–95; < Latin topiārius pertaining to landscape-gardening or to ornamental gardens, equivalent to topi(a) (plural) artificial landscape (< Greek tópia (singular topion), diminutive of tópos place) + -ārius -ary
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Example Sentences
- Compact, well branched, good for shearing into formal hedges or topiary shapes.
- To spruce them up for the holidays, set the topiary tree in an attractive container.
- Dense foliage right to ground makes it good for screens, hedges, clipped topiary shapes.
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Word Origin & History
topiary
1592, from L. topiarius "of or pertaining to ornamental gardening," from topia "ornamental gardening," from Gk. topia, pl. of topion, originally "a field," dim. of topos "place." The noun is first recorded 1908, from the adj.
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