different between shrub vs mangrove

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

Circa 1610, corruption of earlier mangrow by folk etymology influence of grove, from Portuguese mangue, from Spanish mangle (or directly from Spanish), from a Caribbean language, possibly Taíno, another Arawakan language, or a Cariban language.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?mæ?????v/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?mæ???o?v/
• Hyphenation: man?grove

Noun

mangrove (plural mangroves)

1. Any of various tropical evergreen trees or shrubs that grow in shallow coastal water.
2. A habitat with such plants; mangrove forest; mangrove swamp.
3. Plants of the Rhizophoraceae family.
4. Trees of the genus Rhizophora.

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• mangle

References

Further reading

• mangrove on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• venogram

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English mangrove, from earlier mangrow by folk etymology influence of grove, from Portuguese mangue, from Spanish mangle (or directly from Spanish), from a Caribbean language.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?m????ro?.v?/
• Hyphenation: man?gro?ve
• Rhymes: -o?v?

Noun

mangrove m (plural mangroven or mangroves)

1. A mangrove tree.

   Synonyms: mangroveboom, wortelboom

2. A mangrove forest.

   Synonyms: mangrovebos, vloedbos

Derived terms

• mangroveboom
• mangrovebos

Finnish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?m??ro?e/, [?m??ro??e?]
• Rhymes: -??ro?e
• Syllabification: mang?ro?ve

Noun

mangrove

1. mangrove (tropical tree or shrub of any taxon that grows on waterlogged brackish soils)

Declension

• Also mangroveiden is often used for genitive plural.

French

Etymology

From earlier mangrore, borrowed from English mangrove.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m??.???v/

Noun

mangrove f (plural mangroves)

1. A mangrove forest.

Further reading

• “mangrove” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Italian

Noun

mangrove f

1. plural of mangrova

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From English mangrove

Noun

mangrove m (definite singular mangroven, indefinite plural mangrover, definite plural mangrovene)

1. mangrove (tree or forest)

Derived terms

• mangroveskog

References

• “mangrove” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “mangrove” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From English mangrove

Noun

mangrove m (definite singular mangroven, indefinite plural mangrovar, definite plural mangrovane)

1. mangrove (tree or forest)

Derived terms

• mangroveskog

References

• “mangrove” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.