1. A garden having shrubs clipped or trimmed into decorative shapes especially of animals.
2. Making decorative shapes by trimming shrubs or trees.
3. Clipping of trees into imitative or fantastic shapes
4. Art of clipping shrubs, etc., into ornamental shapes. Clipping of trees and shrubs into ornamental shapes, originated by the Romans in the 1st century and revived in the 16th–17th centuries in formal European and American gardens.