shrubby
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- adjective
- /ˈʃrʌbi/
:
arbustivo
- A shrubby black gum that is found nowhere else sometimes grows in the cypress dome.
- shrubby trees
And even though what we see here is a bunch of like these weeping scraggly branches, it's quite like loose and kind of shrubby like this.
- And even though what we see here is a bunch of like these weeping scraggly branches, it's quite like loose and kind of shrubby like this.
Examples
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But as they descended a long, gradual hill, she could see a desolate stretch of shrubby growth.
Fiction book (2000) -
In these regions, which receive 52 to 321 mm of annual precipitation, it is not uncommon to find 5 to 10 species coexisting in shrubby habitats with sandy soils.
Academic text (2002) -
The forest is a mixed one with a number of spiny and shrubby species in the second story.
Academic text (1993) -
Its shrubby (to 2 feet tall) nature makes it an excellent backdrop for a dry garden.
Blog text (34) -
When these same shrubby trees are released from grazing, they can, over a few decades, develop dominant trunks that become tall trees.
Academic text (1998) -
There may be different plant species growing in this area now, but the photo pair suggests there is generally the same vegetation community of herbaceous and shrubby plants.
Academic text (2018) -
A little later in the spring, the large, white flowers of the shrubby snowbell bush, a first cousin to the silverbell, brighten the midlayer in the forest.
Academic text (1993) -
The shrubby hazelnut and highbush blueberry grow above such wildflowers as Indian physic, yellow loosestrife, and round-leaved beggar's-lice.
Academic text (1997) -
The marbled salamander herd thundered in as only salamanders can thunder, arriving by the thousands at a small, shrubby wetland in South Carolina called Ginger's Bay.
Academic text (1998) -
The garden was filled with shrubby plants that provided a beautiful backdrop for the flowers.
Synonyms
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Covered with many low bushes or thick plants
Having the shape of a small bush
A plant or lichen with a bushy, branched shape like a small shrub
Compounds
A low branching bush with dark green leaves and bright red flowers at the ends of its branches
- Specialized
A climbing plant from North America with yellow pods holding bright red seeds used for decoration
- Specialized
A low bushy plant with large pale purple flowers in small groups at the ends of its stems
- Specialized
A low bush with long oval leaves and many bright yellow flowers
How Bushy
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Shrubby comes from the common word shrub (a low, woody plant) plus the ending -y, which means 'full of' or 'like'. So, shrubby means 'like a shrub' or 'full of small bushes', which is why we use it for areas or plants that look low and bushy.