noun
definition
A woody plant smaller than a tree, and usually with several stems from the same base.
verb
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To lop; to prune.
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(Kenyan English) To mispronounce a word by replacing its consonant sound(s) with another or others of a similar place of articulation.
Examples of shrub in a Sentence
Unless this portal looks like a shrub, she said.
The coca shrub is most successfully cultivated at an elevation of 5000 to 6000 ft.
In my front yard grew the strawberry, blackberry, and life-everlasting, johnswort and goldenrod, shrub oaks and sand cherry, blueberry and groundnut.
The retama shrub is met with in sandy districts, especially in the Sahara, but also right up to the north of Tunisia.
It is a small, twiggy, resinous fragrant shrub found on bogs and moors in the British Islands, and widely distributed in the north temperate zone.
The plants are intended to be specimens showing the habit of the tree or shrub, and the collection is essentially an educational one.
A large part of the country is covered with grass or shrub, chiefly acacia.
Cneorum (Europe) is a hardy evergreen trailing shrub, with bright pink sweet-scented flowers.
Forward from the head extends a long ramified appendage described as the " frontal shrub," backward from the fourth abdominal segment of the male spreads a fin-like expansion which is unique.
The mesquite varies in size from a tangled thorny shrub to a spreading tree as much as 3 ft.
May be pruned to a shrub size, if desired.
The dense bush or jungle of evergreen trees, climbers and flowering shrub, which up to the middle of the 19th century covered the greater part of the coast belt, has largely disappeared.
The arborescent growth near the mountains is larger and more vigorous, in which are to be found the " algarrobo " (Prosopis siliquastrum) and " chanar " (Gourliea chilensis), but the only shrub to be found on the coast is a species of Skytanthus.
Among forest shrubs are the willow, hazel, alder, shrub maple, birch, hawthorn, dogwood, elderberry, viburnum and snowberry.
The bark is smooth in the shrub 's youth, silvery gray with darker stripes.
As cultivated in China it is an evergreen shrub growing to a height of from 3 to 5 ft.
There are few indigenous fruits; the kei apple is the fruit of a small tree or shrub found in Kaffraria and the eastern districts, where also the wild and Kaffir plums are common; hard pears, gourds, water melons and species of almond, chestnut and lemon are also native.
Hedera helix, is the only native British evergreen climbing shrub.
East Family Area - Green A tall evergreen or healthy shrub.
Handsome, large velvety dark-green leaves are an outstanding feature of this often rather gaunt, tall shrub.
In England, the pineapple guava is often grown as a wall shrub.
Open, semi-natural habitats with dwarf shrub heaths are moorland.
Hazel Corylus avellana and holly ilex aquifolium often form a distinct shrub layer.
The low shrub oak plateau to which the opposite shore arose stretched away toward the prairies of the West and the steppes of Tartary, affording ample room for all the roving families of men.
Agnuscastus is a graceful shrub, with divided leaves, and in late summer clusters of small pale lilac flowers.
Corylopsis Pauciflora - nother Japanese species, is a very beautiful shrub when well grown, for its long, slender branches are clothed with rather thin, heart-shaped leaves.
Dalmatian Laburnum (Petteria Ramentacea) - A deciduous tree-like shrub allied to Laburnum and Cytisus.
Typically, gardenias are grown as a shrub in areas with warm, temperate weather.
Juniperus Sabina is the savin, abundant on the mountains of central Europe, an irregularly spreading muchbranched shrub with scale-like glandular leaves, and emitting a disagreeable odour when bruised.
A pretty leafy shrub is got ready to make a " plaything " for the seed.
A second phase of planting is planned for Priory Gardens to enhance the rather monotonous bank of single species shrub planting.
Many of the native shrub willows are even more limited in range and particularly palatable to animals.
The Garden House - on the banks of the River Dee has many shrub and herbaceous plantings and a National Collection of Hydrangea.
The opposite edge of the garden is bordered by a bank of single species shrub planting.
It's a shrub grown for its foliage, as its tiny, greenish white flowers are not showy.
It is a deciduous shrub, growing slowly to an ultimate height of around 10 feet.
This compact, bushy shrub is perfect for the smaller garden.
It is a prickly shrub that can form extensive patches.
A stream runs through the bottom of the gardens to the front which have lawns, flower and shrub borders and mature trees.
This attractively variegated deciduous shrub makes a great specimen plant for a well-drained sunny border.
A shrub is a plant that produces woody stems near ground level.
The tree poppy (Dendromecon rigidum) is a Californian shrub about 3 ft.
Side access to rear garden comprising area of lawn with shrub borders.
Developing our Forest Garden area by planting up a shrub layer of soft fruit bushes.
Preparation is simple - dig over (1.5 to 2 spades depth) a square meter where the shrub is to be planted.
It needs to - it 's a very boring, straggly little shrub for the rest of the year.
The Fan-tailed Warbler had not been well seen but one was soon perched on a dead, twiggy shrub in full view.
In cold areas this vigorous, semi-evergreen, variegated shrub is best grown against a warm, sunny wall.
Viburnum opulus ' Harvest Gold ' is a very pretty deciduous shrub or small tree, with lovely yellow foliage.
Methyl salicylate is a natural product derived from the the wintergreen plant, an evergreen shrub.