What's the difference between boscage and shrubbery?
Boscage
Definition:
(n.) A growth of trees or shrubs; underwood; a thicket; thick foliage; a wooded landscape.
(n.) Food or sustenance for cattle, obtained from bushes and trees; also, a tax on wood.
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Shrubbery
Definition:
(n.) A collection of shrubs.
(n.) A place where shrubs are planted.
Example Sentences:
(1) Referee: Peter Bankes (Merseyside) This gnome, who lives in the shrubbery of Guardian gardening expert Jane Perrone, will be rooting for Luton Town this afternoon.
(2) In the preface to another story, "The Snow Image", he described this sense of occlusion as he "sat down by the wayside of life, like a man under enchantment, and a shrubbery sprung up around me, and the bushes grew to be saplings, and the saplings became trees, until no exit appeared possible through the tangling depths of my obscurity".
(3) It's a split-level number with a cave, a pond, and some shrubbery on a grass and rock terrain.
(4) We describe a version of the standard tick drag-flag modified for use in close-growing and tangled vegetation, as well as under ornamental shrubbery and fallen branches.
(5) More a desert encampment, an assembly of mismatched seating, pallet decking, curios (skulls, art, a mannequin dressed as a pirate), it sits among shrubbery off a sandy track – coloured lights, the sounds of motorbikes and the music of the 1970s are the only clues to its existence.
(6) This gives the Timberwolves, who are expected to once again miss out on postseason play next season, two options: They can keep him for the entire season, and risk getting nothing back in return when he leaves for greener pastures They can trade him to a contender for a king's ransom of young players, draft picks, expiring contracts, trade exceptions, money, shrubberies, coupons and anything else they can squeeze Facebook Twitter Pinterest A few examples of why Kevin Love has become the NBA's most wanted.
(7) You half expect him to emerge, sweating, from some bushes or a shrubbery in that thing.
(8) The winter rains soaked the shrubberies, with no one there to see.
(9) I searched the flower borders and shrubbery, but the bowl was nowhere to be found.
(10) Beyond the effusive welcome of the enormous weeping willow, beyond the well-tended lawns grazed by peacocks and Canada geese, beyond the gardeners patiently watering the ornamental shrubberies, stand two equally effulgent but very different Palladian buildings, each in their own space and each exuding a sense of timeless solidity.
(11) Church talked about the "psychological grind" she had endured since she found fame at the age of 12, detailing a catalogue of invented or embroidered stories, more grubby reporters in her shrubbery and the traditional tabloid journey from devotion to denigration.
(12) In communities of color, the foreclosed houses “were more likely to have trash strewn about the premises, overgrown grass, shrubbery, and weeds, and boarded or broken doors and windows”.
(13) Another suddenly appeared out of some bushes, and the Keeper tells us that one chap had bedding and a suitcase full of clothes in a bit of dense shrubbery.
(14) In fact , he simply hid in the shrubbery at the city's botanical gardens.
(15) Participants receive minimal information about what to expect and the TRL researchers keep out of view, hence the hiding amid the shrubbery.
(16) Ultrastructurally, MCL was characterized by 3 fundamental types of structure: tortuous thick bands composed of well-developed minute tubular structures; shrubbery-like structures in sectional profile consisting of accumulated tiny cysts and microprojections; and thin membranes without minute tubular structures.
(17) Why does Bush appear to hover somewhere over the Cedar River, neither level with the shrubbery nor in any clear relation to the water?