shrub
A woody plant smaller than a tree, and usually with several stems from the same base.
Other meanings
A word mispronounced by replacing some consonant sounds with others of a similar place of articulation as influenced by one's mother tongue.
Synonyms
- bush
A kind of
- woody plant
Kinds of shrub
- joint fir
- blueberry root
- mountain grape
- allspice
- winter sweet
- spice bush
- pepper shrub
- impala lily
Word history
From Middle English "schrub".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “shrub” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.