TOPIARY

Topiary

Topiary is the horticultural practice of training live perennial plants by clipping the foliage and twigs of trees, shrubs and subshrubs to develop and maintain clearly defined shapes, perhaps geometric or fanciful; the term also refers to plants which have been shaped in this way. As an art form it is a type of living sculpture. The word derives from the Latin word for an ornamental landscape gardener, topiarius, a creator of topia or "places", a Greek word that Romans also applied to fictive indoor landscapes executed in fresco.

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topiary

Noun

  1. A garden decorated with shrubs which have been trimmed in artistic shapes, often of animals.
  2. One such shrub or tree.
  3. Topiary gardening.

Adjective

  1. In the manner of a topiary.
  2. Of, or relating to art of topiaries.


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