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- [shruhb]
- /ʃrʌb/
- /ʃrʌb/
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- US Pronunciation
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- [shruhb]
- /ʃrʌb/
Definitions of shrub word
- noun shrub any of various acidulated beverages made from the juice of fruit, sugar, and other ingredients, often including alcohol. 1
- countable noun shrub Shrubs are plants that have several woody stems. 0
- noun shrub a woody perennial plant, smaller than a tree, with several major branches arising from near the base of the main stem 0
- noun shrub a mixed drink of rum, fruit juice, sugar, and spice 0
- noun shrub mixed fruit juice, sugar, and spice made commercially to be mixed with rum or other spirits 0
- noun shrub a low, woody plant with several permanent stems instead of a single trunk; bush 0
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Origin of shrub
First appearance:
before 1000 One of the 6% oldest English words
before 1000; Middle English shrubbe, Old English scrybb brushwood; cognate with dialectal Danish skrub
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Parts of speech for Shrub
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shrub popularity
A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 98% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".
shrub usage trend in Literature
This diagram is provided by Google Ngram ViewerSynonyms for shrub
noun shrub
- biennial — A biennial event happens or is done once every two years.
- bramble — Brambles are wild prickly bushes that produce blackberries.
- brier — any of various thorny shrubs or other plants, such as the sweetbrier and greenbrier
- furze — gorse.
- goose grass — cleavers.
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