Shrub in English dictionary

  • shrub

    Meanings and definitions of "Shrub"

    • A woody plant smaller than a tree, and usually with several stems from the same base.
    • 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.
    • noun
      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.
    • noun
      A woody plant smaller than a tree, and usually with several stems from the same base.
    • verb
      (obsolete)
      To lop; to prune.
    • verb
      (transitive, Kenyan English)
      To mispronounce a word by replacing its consonant sound(s) with another or others of a similar place of articulation.
    • woody plant
    • A plant resembling a small tree, but has no, and will never develop, a stem.
    • shrub (kind of)
    • A woody perennial plant, smaller than a tree, with several major branches arising from near the base of the main stem.
    • noun
      a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems

    Synonyms of "Shrub" in English dictionary

    ligneous plant, woody plant, bush are the top synonyms of "Shrub" in the English thesaurus.

    Grammar and declension of Shrub

    • lm  liczba mnoga shrubs
    • shrub ( plural  shrubs)
    • shrub (plural shrubs)
    • shrub (third-person singular simple present shrubs, present participle shrubbing, simple past and past participle shrubbed)
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