shrub
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- noun
- /ʃrʌb/
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arbusto
- She planted several shrubs along the pathway to create a lovely border.
- trees and shrubs
- plants and shrubs
- shrub habitat
And that can cause your tree or your shrub or your plant to die.
- And that can cause your tree or your shrub or your plant to die.
- Dale, trim some of your shrubs in the back.
- No matter how they speak of fall foliage, shrub oaks take a vow the color of rust.
- But since spring has sprung and all our trees and shrubs have kind of blossomed, I really love it here so much.
- Hey, it's Chris and today we are in my back garden and with me here is one of my favorite fruiting shrubs to grow.
- The Kiwi, the fruit here, which those trees and shrubs are mostly.
- That cooing shrub will be known as Dickinson.
Examples
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That's because it is a shrub.
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We obtained data on existing vegetation types and shrub cover from LANDFIRE.
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And that can cause your tree or your shrub or your plant to die.
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So another nice low woody shrub and this one is the same.
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I heard him have a very loud phone conversation right behind that shrub.
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Train it as a climber or a large shrub, I think.
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Well, if we're going to have that many people over, it was a good thing Rob was just here, cutting back the shrubs.
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Dale, trim some of your shrubs in the back.
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It contains a seemingly random variety of plants and shrubs which supports insects and wildlife.
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Geraldton wax flower, Chamelaucium, is an Australian shrub that produces many small, white-to-pink flowers with excellent keeping quality.
Academic text (1994)
Synonyms
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A low woody plant with several stems growing from the ground
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A plant with hard stems, like a tree or shrub
Compounds
Tropical shrub with yellow flowers whose juice treats skin rashes and insect bites
An evergreen shrub or small tree with leaves that have red and yellow patches and small black fruits
- Specialized
A tough bush from the southeast United States with wood that smells like cloves and reddish brown fragrant flowers
- Specialized
A group of shrubs and small trees with sweet-smelling bark and flowers
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Surface Forms
Etymology
Shrub comes from an old English word meaning 'small bush' and is like the familiar word scrub. So a shrub today is a low, woody plant with several stems rather than a tall tree.