shrub

Meaning

Noun

A woody plant smaller than a tree, and usually with several stems from the same base.

Verb

1. (obsolete) To lop; to prune.
2. (rare) To plant a shrub in a yard, garden, etc.; to prune a bush or other plant into a shrub.

Verb

To make or drink a shrub (liquor drink).

Verb

To mispronounce (a word or words) in another language in a manner that is influenced by one's mother tongue.

Synonyms

bush

tree

🌳

plant

🌱

shrubbery

small tree

thicket

stem

grove

young tree

scrub

grass

hawthorn

hedge

sapling

seedling

🌱

sherbet

small

snag

sprout

stump

twig

underbrush

vegetable

weed

withe

small ground

victory leaf

digging stick

physical body

arbuscle

fruit

alpinia

frutex

dwarf tree

juniper bush

subshrub

wild apple

bramble

poss

bushes

butt

chaparral

coppice

copse

cultivated plant

etc.

fruit tree

galangal

Translations

arbusto

arbusto

Strauch

arbuste

Busch

buisson

mata

struik

θάμνος

arbrisseau

cespuglio

arbusto

heester

arbust

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ʃɹʌb/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: schrub

Inherited from Old English: *sċrob

Cognate with Norwegian: skrubbe

In summary

From 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”).

Sentences

Manzanita refers to a small evergreen shrub that grows on the hills surrounding Louisville .