different between shrub vs shrublike
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:
- what shrubs grow in full shade
- what shrubs are deer resistant
- what shrubs are in season acnh
- what shrubs are safe for dogs
- what shrubs do well in full sun
- what shrubs stay small
- what shrubs stay green all year
- what shrubs grow in shade
shrublike
English
Etymology
shrub +? -like
Adjective
shrublike (not comparable)
- Resembling a shrub.
Anagrams
- brushlike
shrublike From the web:
- what shrubs like shade
- what shrubs like wet soil
- what shrubs like full sun
- what shrubs like acidic soil
- what shrubs like full shade
- what shrubs like coffee grounds
- what shrubs like afternoon sun
- what shrubs like wet feet
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