different between shrub vs vaccinium

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

English

Etymology

From the genus name.

Noun

vaccinium (plural vacciniums)

1. (botany) Any of the genus Vaccinium of ericaceous shrubs including the various kinds of blueberries and the true cranberries.

Latin

Etymology

From vacc?nus (“relating to cows”), or a corruption of Ancient Greek ???????? (huákinthos, “dark red, purple”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /u?ak?ki?.ni.um/, [u?äk?ki?ni???]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /vat?t??i.ni.um/, [v?t?t??i?nium]

Noun

vacc?nium n (genitive vacc?ni? or vacc?n?); second declension

1. the bilberry, blueberry, whortleberry

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Descendants

• ? Translingual: Vaccinium
  • ? English: vaccinium

References

• vaccinium in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• vaccinium in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• vaccinium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette