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Shrubbery vs Arboret - What's the difference?

shrubbery | arboret |

As nouns the difference between shrubbery and arboret

is that shrubbery is a planting of shrubs; a wide border to a garden where shrubs are thickly planted; or a similar larger area with a path winding through it while arboret is (obsolete) a small tree or shrub.

shrubbery

English

Noun

(wikipedia shrubbery) (shrubberies)
  • A planting of shrubs; a wide border to a garden where shrubs are thickly planted; or a similar larger area with a path winding through it.
  • Shrubs collectively.

    • arboret

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) A small tree or shrub.
  • * 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , II.vi:
    • No arboret with painted blossomes drest, / And smelling sweet, but there it might be found [...].
  • (obsolete) A grove, shrubbery or arbour

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