Shrub

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A woody plant of relatively low height, having several stems arising from the base and lacking a single trunk; a bush.
  • n. A beverage made from fruit juice, sugar, and a liquor such as rum or brandy.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A woody plant smaller than a tree, and usually with several stems from the same base.
  • v. To lop; to prune.
  • n. 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.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A liquor composed of vegetable acid, especially lemon juice, and sugar, with spirit to preserve it.
  • n. A woody plant of less size than a tree, and usually with several stems from the same root.
  • v. To lop; to prune.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A woody plant with stems branched from or near the ground, and, in general, smaller than a tree; a bush, or woody vine.
  • n. Synonyms Bush, Herb, etc. See vegetable, n.
  • To prune down so that a shrubby form shall be preserved.
  • To reduce (a person) to poverty by winning his whole stock: a word used at play.
  • n. A drink or cordial prepared from the juice of fruit and various other ingredients.
  • n. A cordial or syrup consisting of the acid juice of some fruit, as the raspberry, cooked with sugar and vinegar, and diluted with water when used.
  • An obsolete form of scrub.
  • To clear land of small growth by cutting it off at the ground.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems
  • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    Cross Reference
    Form
    semishrubby    shrubbery    subshrub    undershrub    shrubby   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    lop    prune    bush    frutex   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Cub    Hub    bub    chubb    club    cub    drub    dub    grub    hub   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    fern    bush    foliage    shrubbery    weed    evergreen    thicket    creeper    pine    undergrowth