different between shrub vs sagebrush

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

Alternative forms

• sage brush

Etymology

sage +? brush, from resemblance in odor and appearance to Salvia officinalis.

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /?se?d???b???/

Noun

sagebrush (plural sagebrushes)

1. Any of several North American aromatic shrubs of the genus Artemisia, having silvery-grey, green leaves.

Derived terms

• alpine sagebrush (Artemisia scopulorum)
• African sagebrush (Artemisia afra)
• Basin sagebrush (Artemisia tridentata)
• big sagebrush (Artemisia tridentata)
• Bigelow sagebrush (Artemisia bigelovii)
• birdfoot sagebrush (Artemisia pedatifida)
• black sagebrush (Artemisia nova, Artemisia arbuscula)
• blue sagebrush (Artemisia tridentata)
• boreal sagebrush (Artemisia arctica)
• budsage (Artemisia spinescens)
• California sagebrush (Artemisia californica)
• Carruth's sagebrush (Artemisia carruthii)
• coastal sagebrush (Artemisia californica)
• dwarf sagebrush (Artemisia scopulorum)
• fringed sagebrush (Artemisia frigida)
• gray sagewort (Artemisia ludoviciana)
• island sagebrush (Artemisia nesiotica)
• little sagebrush (Artemisia arbuscula)
• longleaf sagebrush (Artemisia longifolia)
• low sagebrush (Artemisia arbuscula)
• Michaux sagebrush (Artemisia michauxiana)
• Owyhee sagebrush (Artemisia papposa)
• prairie sagebrush (Artemisia ludoviciana)
• pygmy sagebrush (Artemisia pygmaea)
• ragweed sagebrush (Artemisia franserioides)
• sand sagebrush (Artemisia filifolia)
• scabland sagebrush (Artemisia rigida)
• silver sagebrush (Artemisia cana)
• Succor Creek sagebrush (Artemisia packardiae)
• timberline sagebrush (Artemisia rothrockii)
• threetip sagebrush (Artemisia tripartita)
• white sagebrush (Artemisia ludoviciana)

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