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say it: SHRUHB-ur-ee
shrubbery is a noun meaning "an area where a number of shrubs are planted". It is pronounced /ˈʃɹʌbɚi/ — SHRUHB-ur-ee. It carries 2 recorded senses.
an area where a number of shrubs are planted
a collection of shrubs growing together
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for shrubbery come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.