shrub

IPA: ʃrˈʌb

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).

(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.

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 pink shrub is the evergreen azalea ‘Girard Rose.’
The yellow shrub is the deciduous azalea ‘Northern Lights.’
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.
Use: Related to the frangipani but more drought tolerant, this small shrub is evergreen.
FYI — ‘David Austin’ will grow up to 8′ tall and wide, although some judicious pruning can keep it in shrub form.
Use: This tropical shrub is originally from India but is widely cultivated for its beautiful, long-lasting flowers.
Tamarisk, a Eurasian shrub, is your classic invasive species — designated one of America's "least wanted" plants by the National Parks Service.
Things are so bad for bushlandia over the Miers thing that the shrub is appealing to some puke senators that if they dont toe the line on Miers, HIS PRESIDENCY IS AT STAKE.