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- noun Plural form of
shrub .
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Examples
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The time of year to cut back or open up the form of your shrubs is as the flowers fade.
Knowing when to prune is crucial for dependable flower blossoms Joel M. Lerner 2010
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Good thing the neighbors weren't anti's because seeing a dead buck in your front shrubs is not something that happens every day.
Girl Next Door Tags Monster Suburban Eight-Point Buck Next Door 2009
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Now between logs and under shrubs is the first place I look.
I shot a deer today with my bow. The shot felt a little low, but not far back on the animal. 2009
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Now between logs and under shrubs is the first place I look.
I shot a deer today with my bow. The shot felt a little low, but not far back on the animal. 2009
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Good thing the neighbors weren't anti's because seeing a dead buck in your front shrubs is not something that happens every day.
Girl Next Door Tags Monster Suburban Eight-Point Buck Next Door 2009
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The nests are often located under eaves, behind shutters, or in shrubs or woodpiles.
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When she had made choice of her sanctum, at a point of the island where the stream met, after having been separated, she improved it by pulling away the branches of the shrubs from the centre, and weaving them together for a wall on the outside, forming a circular arched alcove, made entirely of the graceful willow.
Narrative of Sojourner Truth, a Northern Slave, Emancipated from Bodily Servitude by the State of New York, in 1828 Olive Truth Gilbert 1850
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The prunings from the shrubs are a much appreciated fuel.
Chapter 11 1993
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Beside the cottonwoods and the willows there was an occasional wild-cherry tree; in the shrubs were the service-berry, and the squaw-berry, with sticky, acid-tasting fruit.
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Some of the neighbours thought that to drive two rails every so often, lay up the fences straight, and grub out the shrubs was the way, but father said they were vastly mistaken.
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