shrub
A woody plant smaller than a tree, and usually with several stems from the same baseA woody plant smaller than a tree, and usually with several stems from the same base.
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3 sensesA woody plant smaller than a tree, and usually with several stems from the same base.
Busch, Strauch
куста́рникkustárnik, кустkust
кущkušč
a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems
(countable, uncountable)A liquor composed of vegetable acid, fruit juice (especially lemon), sugar, sometimes vinegar, and a small amount of spirit as a preservative. Modern shrub is usually non-alcoholic, but in earlier times it was often mixed with a substantial amount of spirit such as brandy or rum, thus making it a liqueur.
(Kenya, slang)A word mispronounced by replacing some consonant sounds with others of a similar place of articulation as influenced by one's mother tongue.
Examples
38 sentencesCan you help me replant this shrub?
I'm going to plant a shrub.
Hydrangeas are popular ornamental garden shrubs.
deAls Ziersträucher im Garten sind Hortensien sehr beliebt. — Melang
Heathers are gorgeous shrubs for gardens.
Leonid was walking through the shrubs.
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Origin
From Middle English schrub, schrob, (also unassibilated as scrub), from Old English *sċrobFrom Middle English schrub, schrob, (also unassibilated as scrub), from Old English *sċrob (in placenames) and sċrybb (“a shrub; shrubbery; underbrush”); akin to Norwegian skrubbe (“the dwarf cornel tree”). Doublet of scrub.
From Arabic شِرَاب (širāb, “a drink, beverage”), شَرِبَ (šariba, “to drink”), akin to syrup, sherbet, and sorbet.
Of unknown origin. First attested in the 2000s.
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plural: shrubsSynonyms
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