Shrub

• POS: Noun

CIDE DICTIONARY

Shrub, n. [Ar. shirb, shurb, a drink, beverage, fr. shariba to drink. Cf. Sirup, Sherbet.].

 A liquor composed of vegetable acid, especially lemon juice, and sugar, with spirit to preserve it.  [1913 Webster]

Shrub, n. [OE. schrob, AS. scrob, scrobb; akin to Norw. skrubba the dwarf cornel tree.].

 A woody plant of less size than a tree, and usually with several stems from the same root.  [1913 Webster]

Shrub, v. t. 

 To lop; to prune.  Anderson (1573).  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

Shrub, n. a woody plant smaller than a tree and having a very short stem with branches near the ground.

Derivative

shrubby adj.

Shrub, n. a cordial made of sweetened fruit-juice and spirits, esp. rum.

Etymology

Arab. surb, sarab f. sariba to drink: cf. SHERBET, SYRUP

THESAURUS

Shrub

Persian berry, alder, azalea, bayberry, blackberry, blackthorn, box, bramble, brier, brier bush, broom, bush, caper, cinchona, coca, coffee, cranberry, currant, daphne, elder, forsythia, frangipani, fuchsia, furze, gardenia, gooseberry, gorse, greasewood, guava, haw, heather, hemp tree, henna, hibiscus, holly, huckleberry, hydrangea, indigo, juniper, jute, laurel, leatherleaf, lilac, magnolia, manzanita, mock orange, mountain lilac, myrtle, ninebark, oleander, photinia, poison sumac, privet, pussy willow, rhododendron, rose of Sharon, rosebay, rosemary, sage, sagebrush, sand myrtle, scrub, shrubbery, sisal, snow wreath, snowberry, spiraea, sumac, symplocos, syringa, tamarisk, veronica, witch hazel, yellowroot

ROGET THESAURUS

Shrub

Vegetable

N vegetable, vegetable kingdom, flora, verdure, plant, tree, shrub, bush, creeper, herb, herbage, grass, annual, perennial, biennial, triennial, exotic, timber, forest, wood, woodlands, timberland, hurst, frith, holt, weald, park, chase, greenwood, brake, grove, copse, coppice, bocage, tope, clump of trees, thicket, spinet, spinney, underwood, brushwood, scrub, boscage, bosk, ceja, chaparal, motte, arboretum, bush, jungle, prairie, heath, heather, fern, bracken, furze, gorse, whin, grass, turf, pasture, pasturage, turbary, sedge, rush, weed, fungus, mushroom, toadstool, lichen, moss, conferva, mold, growth, alfalfa, alfilaria, banyan, blow, blowth, floret, petiole, pin grass, timothy, yam, yew, zinnia, foliage, branch, bough, ramage, stem, tigella, spray, leaf, flower, blossom, bine, flowering plant, timber tree, fruit tree, pulse, legume, vegetable, vegetal, vegetive, vegitous, herbaceous, herbal, botanic, sylvan, silvan, arborary, arboreous, arborescent, arborical, woody, grassy, verdant, verdurous, floral, mossy, lignous, ligneous, wooden, leguminous, vosky, cespitose, turf-like, turfy, endogenous, exogenous, green-robed senators of mighty woods, this is the forest primeval.