shrub

Meaning

Noun

1. A woody plant smaller than a tree, and usually with several stems from the same base.
2. A word mispronounced by replacing some consonant sounds with others of a similar place of articulation due to interference from one's knowledge of an indigenous Kenyan language.

Verb

1. (obsolete) To lop; to prune.
2. To mispronounce a word by replacing some consonant sounds with others of a similar place of articulation due to interference from one's knowledge of an indigenous Kenyan language.
3. To plant a shrub in a yard, garden, etc.; to prune a bush or other plant into a shrub.
4. To make or drink a shrub (liquor drink).

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

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ʃɹʌb/

Etymology

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”).