English Explanatory Dictionary

shrub

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A woody plant smaller than a tree, and usually with several stems from the same base.
verb
  1. To lop; to prune.
  2. To plant a shrub in a yard, garden, etc.; to prune a bush or other plant into a shrub.
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.
verb
  1. To make or drink a shrub (liquor drink).
verb
  1. To mispronounce (a word or words) in another language in a manner that is influenced by one's mother tongue.
noun
  1. A word mispronounced by replacing some consonant sounds with others of a similar place of articulation as influenced by one's mother tongue.
name
  1. George W. Bush (born 1946), the 43rd president of the United States (2001–2009).

Pronunciation

shrŭb /ʃɹʌb/ en-us-shrub.ogg /ʃɹʊb/

Word forms

shrub shrubs shrubbing shrubbed

Etymology

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”).

Synonyms

bush

Derived words

intershrub sea shrub semishrub semishrubby shrubbed shrubbery shrubbish shrubby shrub celery shrub frog shrubful shrubification shrubland shrubless shrublet shrublike shrub line shrubling shrub ox shrubsteppe shrub trimmer shrubwood subshrub sweetshrub tea shrub undershrub unshrubbed shrub out shrub up shrubbing Shrubya
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