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shrub
1[ shruhb ]
noun
- a woody plant smaller than a tree, usually having multiple permanent stems branching from or near the ground.
shrub
2[ shruhb ]
noun
- any of various acidulated beverages made from the juice of fruit, sugar, and other ingredients, often including alcohol.
shrub
1/ ʃrʌb /
noun
- 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
shrub
2/ ʃrʌb /
noun
- a woody perennial plant, smaller than a tree, with several major branches arising from near the base of the main stem
shrub
/ shrŭb /
- A woody plant that is smaller than a tree, usually having several stems rather than a single trunk; a bush.
Derived Forms
- ˈshrubˌlike, adjective
Other Words From
- shrubless adjective
- shrublike adjective
Word History and Origins
Origin of shrub1
Word History and Origins
Origin of shrub1
Origin of shrub2
Example Sentences
Highly portable, they’re easy to use in gardens, behind shrubs, and anywhere that collects dead leaves.
Shrubs tend to burn hot, but shrub ecosystems are well-adapted to fire.
That heat and dryness turned grasses, shrubs, and trees into easy tinder, ready to ignite at the slightest spark.
SDG&E said an increased risk from shrubs and bushes “has no relevance to the issue,” meaning it’s trees that matter here.
All this suggested that Antarctica was once a forest full of conifers, ferns and flowering shrubs.
Luis, whose heart was severed by the blade, had collapsed under a large shrub.
It was supposed by many on its discovery to grow like the engraving given—in form resembling a tree or shrub rather than an herb.
Almost any other kind of shrub'd have died long ago, neglected as things have been, but you can't kill a currant bush.
Brutus was getting well, but there would always be a scar on his shoulder, where the sharp-pointed shrub had entered the flesh.
He shook his cramped limbs with as little ceremony as if Kano were a shrub, and then turned, with the evident intention of flight.
“Guayule” is a resinous rubber secured from a two-foot shrub that grows on the arid plains of Texas and Northern Mexico.
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