Shrub
[ʃrʌb]
Definition
(noun.) a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems.
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Definition
(n.) A liquor composed of vegetable acid, especially lemon juice, and sugar, with spirit to preserve it.
(n.) A woody plant of less size than a tree, and usually with several stems from the same root.
(v. t.) To lop; to prune.
Editor: Stanton
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Bush.
Editor: Pedro
Definition
n. a drink prepared from the juice of lemons currants raspberries with spirits as rum.
n. a woody plant with several stems from the same root: a bush or dwarf tree.—v.t. (prov.) to win all a man's money at play.—adj. Shrub′beried abounding in shrubbery.—ns. Shrub′bery a plantation of shrubs; Shrub′biness the state or quality of being shrubby.—adjs. Shrub′by full of shrubs: like a shrub: consisting of shrubs; Shrub′less.
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Examples
- The three were walking along the gravel slowly, and Sir James, turning aside to whip a shrub, said he had heard something of that sort. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Guayule is a resinous rubber secured from a two-foot shrub that grows on the arid plains of Texas and Northern Mexico. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- She beckoned the Jew towards her, as she reached down the shrub-bottle from its niche, and whispered: 'Child, or woman? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Steppe-like conditions, conditions of pasture and shrub, were bringing with them vast herds of wild horse. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- A little--not to put too fine a point upon it--drop of shrub? Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- After some little search, I found a folded paperlodged on the lower branch of a shrub; I seized and brought it direct to Dr. John. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- There is the box shrub which gives us boxwood. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- And then not until they reach that shrub, Robert Jordan pointed. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Then we turned up a flower and shrub lined concrete driveway, and stopped by a home, capacious and modern. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- But first of all,' said Miss Abbey, '--did you ever taste shrub, child? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- You drank the shrub, and now you pretend to have broken the bottle. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- But before the shrub and water was sipped out, Miss Abbey bethought herself that she would like to keep a copy of the paper by her. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- There was hardly a tree or a shrub any where. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Beyond this charmed circle, for miles on every side, stretches a weary desert of sand and gravel, which produces a gray bunchy shrub like sage-brush. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- It deals with the explanation of earthquakes, tides, the virtues of plants, the fierce instincts of wil d animals, every species of stone, shrub, and reptile. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Entering the gate and passing the shrubs, the silhouette of a house rose to view, black, low, and rather long; but the guiding light shone nowhere. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Only the music of the angels it knew once could charm its shrubs and flowers to life again and restore its vanished beauty. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- A mass of shrubs, full-leaved evergreens, laurel and dense yewintervened between me and what I followed. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Methusaleh, the pear-tree, stood at the further end of this walk, near my seat: he rose up, dim and gray, above the lower shrubs round him. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- That was the odor of the cactus flowers, mimosa and the sea-grape shrubs. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- It was a fine frosty afternoon; the winter sun, already setting, gleamed pale on the tops of the garden-shrubs in the allée défendue. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Yes; there scarce stirred a breezeand that heavy tree was convulsed, whilst the feathery shrubs stood still. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Over the shrubs, before her, were the pale roofs and tower of the old church. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- They could see nothing; the high shrubs of the garden formed a leafy screen between them and the road. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- He seized my hand in the darkness and led me swiftly past banks of shrubs which brushed against our faces. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- A gloomy wood, according to the one playbill, was represented by a few shrubs in pots, green baize on the floor, and a cave in the distance. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Their path to the front led them close to a little side window, whence the rays of candles streamed across the shrubs. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- On Christmas Eve he had reappeared at The Shrubs. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- There we found numbers of huge milk-giving shrubs--that strange plant which serves in great part as food and drink for the wild hordes of green men. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
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