shrub

CEFRB2

/ˈʃɹʌb/

noun

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In plain English

  1. 01

    noun

    A small woody plant with many branches.

  2. 02

    noun

    Extra detail

    To lop; to prune.

Examples

  • I have a large shrub in my front lawn that needs to be trimmed.

  • The oleander is an evergreen shrub that doesn't require much care.

At a glance

Sits at B2 on the CEFR scale

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5
Parts of speech
1
Citations
5
Synonyms
1

Deep Dive

noun

Extra meanings

  1. To plant a shrub in a yard, garden, etc.; to prune a bush or other plant into a shrub.

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

  3. 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.

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In context

  • I'm going to plant a shrub.

  • Tara flour is one of two products made from the seed pods of a thorny shrub native to Peru. One of those, tara gum, has been used safely for years as a thickening agent or stabilizer in human foods.

  • The Papistes[…]though they be woll shrubbed, and shred, yet they begin euen nowe before the springe, to budde.

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Origin

noun

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”).