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View synonyms for shrub

shrub

1

[ shruhb ]

noun

  1. a woody plant smaller than a tree, usually having multiple permanent stems branching from or near the ground.


shrub

2

[ shruhb ]

noun

  1. any of various acidulated beverages made from the juice of fruit, sugar, and other ingredients, often including alcohol.

shrub

1

/ ʃrʌb /

noun

  1. a mixed drink of rum, fruit juice, sugar, and spice
  2. mixed fruit juice, sugar, and spice made commercially to be mixed with rum or other spirits
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


shrub

2

/ ʃrʌb /

noun

  1. a woody perennial plant, smaller than a tree, with several major branches arising from near the base of the main stem
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

shrub

/ shrŭb /

  1. A woody plant that is smaller than a tree, usually having several stems rather than a single trunk; a bush.


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Derived Forms

  • ˈshrubˌlike, adjective
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Other Words From

  • shrubless adjective
  • shrublike adjective
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Word History and Origins

Origin of shrub1

before 1000; Middle English shrubbe, Old English scrybb brushwood; cognate with dialectal Danish skrub

Origin of shrub2

1740–50; < Arabic, metathetic variant of shurb drink; sherbet
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Word History and Origins

Origin of shrub1

C18: from Arabic sharāb, variant of shurb drink; see sherbet

Origin of shrub2

Old English scrybb; related to Middle Low German schrubben coarse, uneven, Old Swedish skrubba to scrub 1
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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.

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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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