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plural shrubsful
- An amount held in a shrub.
A shrubful of nannie-berries at the foot of an ancient vineyard brimmed Myra’s cup to overflowing.
1906 October, Julia A[ugusta] Schwartz, “All Kinds of Sense”, in Elinor’s College Career […], Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown, and Company, Part III (The Junior Year), page 2082 more examples
On bright days, they [sparrows] sit, peering, as from windows on their individual branches, chattering, calling, like a noisy shrubful of watching concierges.
2013, Esther Woolfson, “Flying through the Storm”, in Field Notes from a Hidden City: An Urban Nature Diary, London: Granta Books, →ISBN, section “Midsummer”, page 269And it turns out, from a thorough reading of the research and its conclusions, that super-greedy cedar waxwings are most likely to be killed by the berries, because unlike most other birds they often clean entire shrubsful in one fell swoop, gorge on many more berries at one time, then store them in their craw until the berries ferment and poison the birds.
2017 December 22, Felder Rushing, “Nandina Bamboo shrub isn’t as bad as you think”, in Clarion Ledger, volume 178, number 297, Jackson, Miss., →ISSN, page 15A, columns 1–2
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