Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A woody plant of relatively low height, having several stems arising from the base and lacking a single trunk; a bush.
- noun A beverage made from fruit juice, sugar, and a liquor such as rum or brandy.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To prune down so that a shrubby form shall be preserved.
- To reduce (a person) to poverty by winning his whole stock: a word used at play.
- An obsolete form of
scrub . - noun A drink or cordial prepared from the juice of fruit and various other ingredients.
- noun A cordial or syrup consisting of the acid juice of some fruit, as the raspberry, cooked with sugar and vinegar, and diluted with water when used.
- noun A woody plant with stems branched from or near the ground, and, in general, smaller than a tree; a bush, or woody vine.
- noun Synonyms Bush, Herb, etc. See
vegetable , n. - To clear land of small growth by cutting it off at the ground.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A liquor composed of vegetable acid, especially lemon juice, and sugar, with spirit to preserve it.
- transitive verb obsolete To lop; to prune.
- noun (Bot.) A woody plant of less size than a tree, and usually with several stems from the same root.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
liquor composed ofvegetable acid ,fruit juice (especiallylemon ),sugar , sometimesvinegar , and a small amount ofspirit as apreservative . Modern shrub is usually non-alcoholic , but in earlier times it was often mixed with a substantial amount of spirit such asbrandy orrum , thus making it aliqueur . - noun A woody plant smaller than a tree, and usually with several stems from the same base.
- verb obsolete To
lop ; toprune .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Things are so bad for bushlandia over the Miers thing that the shrub is appealing to some puke senators that if they dont toe the line on Miers, HIS PRESIDENCY IS AT STAKE.
Think Progress » “Strategists working with the White House 2005
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Use: Related to the frangipani but more drought tolerant, this small shrub is evergreen.
Desert rose, dracaena and pothos: ornamental plants and flowers of tropical Mexico 2009
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The yellow shrub is the deciduous azalea ‘Northern Lights.’
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FYI — ‘David Austin’ will grow up to 8′ tall and wide, although some judicious pruning can keep it in shrub form.
‘Graham Thomas’ voted world’s favorite rose « Sugar Creek Gardens’ Blog 2009
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The pink shrub is the evergreen azalea ‘Girard Rose.’
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Use: Related to the frangipani but more drought tolerant, this small shrub is evergreen.
Desert rose, dracaena and pothos: ornamental plants and flowers of tropical Mexico 2009
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Use: This tropical shrub is originally from India but is widely cultivated for its beautiful, long-lasting flowers.
Crossandra, mango and jellybean plant: ornamental plants and flowers of tropical Mexico 2009
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Tamarisk, a Eurasian shrub, is your classic invasive species — designated one of America's "least wanted" plants by the National Parks Service.
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Use: This tropical shrub is originally from India but is widely cultivated for its beautiful, long-lasting flowers.
Crossandra, mango and jellybean plant: ornamental plants and flowers of tropical Mexico 2009
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Tamarisk, a Eurasian shrub, is your classic invasive species — designated one of America's "least wanted" plants by the National Parks Service.
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Adding herbs and sweeteners push posca in the direction of more familiar old school vinegar-based drinks like switchel, sekanjabin, and shrub.
My favorite beverage is a 2,000-year-old energy drink from ancient Rome Gwynn Guilford 2022
john commented on the word shrub
“The Romans diluted acetified wine with water to make an everyday thirst quencher called posca, and vinegar has been touted as a cure-all in Asia and Europe for centuries. The practice was brought to the Colonies from England, where it was commonly referred to as shrub, a term confusingly used both for a nonalcoholic drink and for one mixed with rum. In the United States, shrub seems to have thrived particularly in the South, gaining enormous popularity with the temperance movement. Many Southerners still fondly remember a grandmother making up ‘raspberry vinegar’ in the summer.�?
The New York Times, Dropping Acid, by Toby Cecchini, November 11, 2008
November 13, 2008