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shrub
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)
- 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)
- (obsolete) To lop; to prune.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Anderson (1573) to this entry?)
- (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)
- 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
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rhododendron
English
Wikispecies
Etymology
The obsolete sense derives from Latin rhododendron (“oleander”), from Ancient Greek ??????????? (rhodódendron, “oleander”), from ????? (rhódon, “rose”) + ??????? (déndron, “tree”). The modern sense comes through the intermediary of the genus name Rhododendron.
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /?o?d??d?nd??n/
Noun
rhododendron (plural rhododendrons or rhododendra)
- (obsolete) Oleander (Nerium oleander).
- Any of various flowering shrubs in the genus Rhododendron.
Translations
References
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin rhododendron, itself a borrowing from Ancient Greek ??????????? (rhodódendron).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??.d?.d??.d???/
Noun
rhododendron m (plural rhododendrons)
- rhododendron
See also
- oléandre
Further reading
- “rhododendron” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Latin
Alternative forms
- rhododendros f
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ??????????? (rhodódendron, “oleander”), from ????? (rhódon, “rose”) + ??????? (déndron, “tree”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ro.do?den.dron/, [r?d???d??n?d???n]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ro.do?den.dron/, [r?d???d??n?d???n]
Noun
rhododendron n (genitive rhododendr?); second declension
- the rosebay, oleander
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter, Greek-type).
Descendants
- Galician: loendro
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