different between shrub vs southernwood

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)

  1. 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)

  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

shrub From the web:

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  • 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


southernwood

English

Etymology

southern +? wood

Noun

southernwood (countable and uncountable, plural southernwoods)

  1. An aromatic shrub, Artemisia abrotanum, related to wormwood.

Synonyms

  • (Artemisia abrotanum): lad's love, southern wormwood

Translations

References

  • Artemisia abrotanum on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
  • Artemisia abrotanum on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
  • Artemisia abrotanum on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
  • southernwood at USDA Plants database

southernwood From the web:

  • what is southernwood plant
  • what is southernwood used for
  • what does southernwood mean
  • what block is southernwood
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