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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
shrub From the web:
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rushes
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?????z/
- Rhymes: -???z
- Hyphenation: rush?es
Noun
rushes
- plural of rush
Noun
rushes pl (plural only)
- (cinematography) Unedited footage; film material as recorded to tape etc.
- Synonym: dailies
Translations
Verb
rushes
- Third-person singular simple present indicative form of rush
Anagrams
- Husers, Rhesus, Suresh, Ushers, rhesus, ushers
rushes From the web:
- what rushes into my heart and my soul lyrics
- what rushes out to meet the trees
- what rushes labor
- rushes meaning
- rushes what does that mean
- what are rushes on the floor
- what are rushes in film
- what kills rushes
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