shrub
1- a woody plant smaller than a tree, usually having multiple permanent stems branching from or near the ground.
Origin of shrub
1shrub
2- any of various acidulated beverages made from the juice of fruit, sugar, and other ingredients, often including alcohol.
Origin of shrub
2Related Words for shrub
hedge, fern, shrubbery, tree, foliage, thicket, topiary, plant, bush, brier, boscage, bosketExamples from the Web for shrub
Historical Examples of shrub
A low tree, or usually merely a shrub, from Japan; often cultivated.
Trees of the Northern United StatesAustin C. Apgar
A shrub rather than a tree, cultivated from Siberia; hardy throughout.
Trees of the Northern United StatesAustin C. Apgar
Nearly every tree and shrub that will grow in this climate is here to be found.
Six Letters From the ColoniesRobert Seaton
The shrub grows wild on elevations between 1000 and 4000 feet.
The Hawaiian IslandsThe Department of Foreign Affairs
Marie stooped to pluck a flower, and slipped behind the shrub.
The TraitorsE. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim
shrub
1- a woody perennial plant, smaller than a tree, with several major branches arising from near the base of the main stem
Word Origin for shrub
shrub
2- a mixed drink of rum, fruit juice, sugar, and spice
- mixed fruit juice, sugar, and spice made commercially to be mixed with rum or other spirits
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Word Origin and History for shrub
Old English scrybb "brushwood, shrubbery," a rare and late word (but preserved also, perhaps, in Shrewsbury), possibly from a Scandinavian source (cf. dialectal Danish skrub "brushwood," Norwegian skrubba "dwarf tree"). Presumably related to North Frisian skrobb "broom plant, brushwood;" West Flemish schrobbe "climbing wild pea," with a base notion of "rough plant," from PIE *(s)kerb-, extended form of root *(s)ker- (1) "to cut" (see shear (v.)).
shrub
- A woody plant that is smaller than a tree, usually having several stems rather than a single trunk; a bush.