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shrub

28 ENTRIES FOUND:
  1. 1) shrub (noun)
  2. 2) shrub (noun)
  3. shrub garden (noun)
  4. shrub layer (noun)
  5. shrub mallow (noun)
  6. shrub oak (noun)
  7. shrub yellowroot (noun)
  8. banana shrub (noun)
  9. buttonwood shrub (noun)
  10. California strawberry shrub (noun)
  11. coral shrub (noun)
  12. cotton shrub (noun)
  13. fetid shrub (noun)
  14. garlic shrub (noun)
  15. half-shrub (noun)
  16. high-water shrub (noun)
  17. incense shrub (noun)
  18. lily-of-the-valley shrub (noun)
  19. pea shrub (noun)
  20. sea shrub (noun)
  21. sensitive shrub (noun)
  22. strawberry shrub (noun)
  23. strawberry-shrub family (noun)
  24. sweet-scented shrub (noun)
  25. shrubby althaea (noun)
  26. bubbybush (noun)
  27. karroo bush (noun)
  28. tallow bayberry (noun)

1shrub

noun \ˈshrəb, especially Southern ˈsrəb\

Definition of SHRUB

: a low usually several-stemmed woody plant

Origin of SHRUB

Middle English schrobbe, from Old English scrybb brushwood; akin to Norwegian skrubbebær, a cornel of a dwarf species
First Known Use: before 12th century

Rhymes with SHRUB

bub, blub, chub, club, cub, drub, dub, flub, grub, hub, nub, pub, rub, schlub, scrub, slub, snub, stub, sub, tub

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