different between shrub vs macchia

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

Etymology

From Corsican machja, related to Italian macchia and French maquis; ultimately from Latin macula. Doublet of macule.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mæk.?a/

Noun

macchia (uncountable)

1. A shrubland biota in Mediterranean countries, typically consisting of densely-growing evergreen shrubs.

Related terms

• maquis

Translations

Further reading

• maquis shrubland on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?mak.kja/
• Rhymes: -akkja
• Hyphenation: màc?chia

Etymology 1

From Vulgar Latin *macla, from Latin macula. Doublet of macula, a borrowing.

Noun

macchia f (plural macchie)

1. stain, smear
2. spot, fleck
3. (figuratively) blot, speck, disgrace
4. (figuratively, uncommon) defect, flaw

   Synonyms: difetto, neo

Derived terms

Related terms

References

• macchia¹ in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Etymology 2

A semantic extension of the above.

Noun

macchia f (plural macchie)

1. shrub, bush, brake
2. macchia (shrubland biota)
3. (transferred sense) Generic name for plants commonly found in a macchia

Derived terms

References

• macchia² in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

macchia

1. inflection of macchiare:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Anagrams

• macachi