different between shrub vs rosemary

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

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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

rose +? Mary. From Middle English rosmary, rosemarye, alteration (based on rose + Mary) of earlier Middle English rosmarine, rosemaryn, partly from Old French rosmarin, partly directly from Latin r?smar?nus (“rosemary”), from r?s (“dew, moisture”) +? mar?nus (“marine, of the sea”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /????zm??i/
• (US) IPA^(key): /??o?z?m???i/

Noun

rosemary (usually uncountable, plural rosemaries)

1. A shrub, Rosmarinus officinalis, that originates from Europe and Asia Minor and produces a fragrant herb used in cooking and perfumes.

Synonyms

• rosmarine (obsolete)

Derived terms

Translations

Further reading

• rosemary on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Rosmarinus officinalis on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Rosmarinus officinalis on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons