Shrub

Noun

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

Synonyms

 * bush (plant)

Derived terms

 * semishrubby
 * shrubbery
 * shrubby
 * subshrub
 * undershrub

Noun

 * 1) 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.

Adjectives for Shrub
blossoming; aromatic; crowding (pi); luxuriant; ornamental; skirting; tranquil; unpruned; widowed; warm-tinted; stunted.

Verbs for Shrub
blast—; blight—; choke—; cultivate—; debilitate—; eradicate—; extirpate—; fertil¬ize—; impoverish—; starve—; strangle—; trim—; uproot—; —beautifies; —declines; —droops; —s enhance; —fades; —flourishes ; —graces; —luxuriates; —languishes; — thrives; —trembles; —wanes.

Thesaurus
Persian berry, alder, azalea, bayberry, blackberry, blackthorn, box, bramble, brier, brier bush, broom, bush, caper, cinchona, coca, coffee, cranberry, currant, daphne, elder, forsythia, frangipani, fuchsia, furze, gardenia, gooseberry, gorse, greasewood, guava, haw, heather, hemp tree, henna, hibiscus, holly, huckleberry, hydrangea, indigo, juniper, jute, laurel, leatherleaf, lilac, magnolia, manzanita, mock orange, mountain lilac, myrtle, ninebark, oleander, photinia, poison sumac, privet, pussy willow, rhododendron, rose of Sharon, rosebay, rosemary, sage, sagebrush, sand myrtle, scrub, shrubbery, sisal, snow wreath, snowberry, spiraea, sumac, symplocos, syringa, tamarisk, veronica, witch hazel, yellowroot

Etymology 1
From schrob: scrob:, or scrobb:; akin to Norwegian skrubba the dwarf cornel tree

Etymology 2
From شراب:, شرب:, akin to sirup, sherbet

Noun

 * Armenian:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French: ,
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 * Greenlandic: ,
 * Hopi:
 * Italian:
 * Marathi: क्षुप, झुडुप


 * Norwegian:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: ,
 * Russian: кустарник, куст
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swahili: miraa
 * Volapük: bimül, jöb,  smabim

Noun

 * Swahili: miraa

Anagrams

 * brush