different between shrub vs figwort

English

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) enPR: shr?b, IPA^(key): /???b/
• Rhymes: -?b

Etymology 1

From Middle English schrub, schrob, (also unassibilated as scrub), from Old English *s?rob (in placenames) and s?rybb (“a shrub; shrubbery; underbrush”); akin to Norwegian skrubbe (“the dwarf cornel tree”).

Noun

shrub (plural shrubs)

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

Synonyms

• bush (plant)

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

shrub (third-person singular simple present shrubs, present participle shrubbing, simple past and past participle shrubbed)

1. (obsolete) To lop; to prune.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Anderson (1573) to this entry?)

2. (transitive, Kenyan English) To mispronounce a word by replacing its consonant sound(s) with another or others of a similar place of articulation.

   For example, /???b/ ? /s??b/

Etymology 2

From Arabic ??????? (šir?b, “a drink, beverage”), ??????? (šariba, “to drink”), akin to syrup, sherbet

Noun

shrub (countable and uncountable, plural shrubs)

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.

Translations

Anagrams

• Brush, bruhs, brush, burhs

English

Wikispecies

Etymology

fig +? wort

Noun

figwort (plural figworts)

1. Any of various woodland herbs and shrubs of the genus Scrophularia.
2. (archaic) Ficaria verna, formerly Ranunculus ficaria.

Derived terms

• alpine figwort (Scrophularia canina)
• American figwort (Scrophularia lanceolata)
• black-flowered figwort (Scrophularia atrata)
• California figwort (Scrophularia californica)
• common figwort (Scrophularia nodosa)
• darkflowered figwort (Scrophularia atrata)
• desert figwort (Scrophularia desertorum)
• dog figwort (Scrophularia canina)
• French figwort (Scrophularia canina)
• green figwort (Scrophularia umbrosa
• Hopp's figwort (Scrophularia canina subsp. hoppii)
• knotted figwort (Scrophularia nodosa)
• lance-leaved figwort (Scrophularia lanceolata)
• littleflower figwort (Scrophularia minutiflora)
• Mediterranean figwort (Scrophularia peregrina)
• New Mexico figwort (Scrophularia macrantha)
• Oregon figwort (Scrophularia oregana)
• Organ Mountain figwort (Scrophularia laevis)
• pineland figwort (Scrophularia parviflora)
• Santa Catalina figwort (Scrophularia villosa)
• shoreline figwort (Scrophularia auriculata)
• water figwort (Scrophularia auriculata)
• woodland figwort (Scrophularia nodosa)
• mountain figwort (Scrophularia montana, Scropularia desertorum)

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