Shrub

Quick meaning: Shrub is a noun meaning A woody plant smaller than a tree, and usually with several stems from the same base.

Meaning

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

More Meanings

1. (ambitransitive, Kenya, slang) To mispronounce (a word or words) in another language in a manner that is influenced by one's mother tongue.
2. (Kenya, slang) A word mispronounced by replacing some consonant sounds with others of a similar place of articulation as influenced by one's mother tongue.
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.
4. (obsolete) To lop; to prune.
5. (rare) To plant a shrub in a yard, garden, etc.; to prune a bush or other plant into a shrub.
6. (rare) To make or drink a shrub (liquor drink).

Example Sentences

It is still considered embarrassing if people in authority like teachers or newscasters “shrub.”

However, Mwandani and her brother had noted that their mother had shrubbed and pointed it out right away.

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

It is not only in face-to-face contexts that Kenyans police shrubbing; there are newspaper columns inviting readers to send in shrubs that they have witnessed, […]

Word Forms

• shrubs
• shrubbing
• shrubbed

Synonyms for shrub

Depending on context, synonyms include bush.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include bush, vegetation, tree, thicket, evergreen, shrubbery.

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