different between shrub vs quandong

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

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?kwand??/, /?kw?nd??/

Etymology

From Wiradhuri guwandhang.

Noun

quandong (plural quandongs)

1. Any of several species of Santalum:
   1. A small southern Australian shrub (Santalum acuminatum) or its edible red fruit. [from 19th c.]
   2. The bitter quandong (Santalum murrayanum) or its fruit. [from 19th c.]
   3. The desert quandong (Santalum lanceolatum) or its fruit.
2. Any of many species of Elaeocarpus:
   1. blue quandong (Elaeocarpus angustifolius) or its fruit. [from 20th c.]
   2. Arnhem Land quandong, bony quandong (Elaeocarpus arnhemicus)
   3. Kuranda quandong (Elaeocarpus bancroftii)
   4. brown quandong (Elaeocarpus coorangooloo)
   5. smooth-leaved quandong, eumundi (Elaeocarpus eumundi)
   6. quandong (Elaeocarpus ferruginiflorus)
   7. white quandong, Northern quandong (Elaeocarpus foveolatus)
   8. brush quandong, blue quandong, white quandong, quandong (Elaeocarpus grandis)
   9. mountain quandong (Elaeocarpus holopetalus )
   10. Kuranda quandong (Elaeocarpus johnsonii)
   11. brown-hearted quandong (Elaeocarpus kirtonii)
   12. white quandong (Elaeocarpus kirtonii)
   13. tropical quandong (Elaeocarpus largiflorens)
   14. hard quandong (Elaeocarpus obovatus)
   15. Ash quandong (Elaeocarpus reticulatus)
   16. brown quandong, grey quandong (Elaeocarpus ruminatus)
   17. Northern quandong, hard quandong, Northern hard quandong (Elaeocarpus sericopetalus)
   18. hairy quandong (Elaeocarpus williamsianus)
3. highroot quandong (Aceratium concinnum)
4. buff guandong, grey quandong (Peripentadenia mearsii)
5. (Australia slang, now rare) A confidence trickster. [from 20th c.]
   • 1985, Peter Carey, Illywhacker, Faber and Faber 2003, p. 228:

     ‘A spieler,’ Leah gently loosened the painful crab hold of the boy's hand. ‘[…] A trickster. A quandong. A ripperty man. A con-man.’