shrub
IPA: ʃrˈʌb
noun
- A woody plant smaller than a tree, and usually with several stems from the same base.
- (Kenya) 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.
- 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.
- (US politics, derogatory) George W. Bush (born 1946), the 43rd president of the United States (2001–2009).
verb
- (obsolete) To lop; to prune.
- (transitive, Kenya) 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.
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Examples of "shrub" in Sentences
- The man bought a shrub to plant it in his garden.
- The site is overgrown with shrubs and thorny plants.
- The plant is not very tolerant of cold, and in the wild is a shrub.
- This shrub is one of the most widespread plants of the chaparral biome.
- The shrub blooms abundantly in clusters of flowers along all the branches.
- Phasmids are herbivorous, feeding mostly on the leaves of trees and shrubs.
- He also planted ornamental shrubs and trees in the curtilage of the homestead.
- The larvae feed on various broadleaf trees and shrubs, but mainly Douglas Fir.
- It tends to clamber to the tops of trees and shrubs, sprawling over the crowns.
- The increased number of herbivores ravage the local trees, shrubs, and grasses.