shrub

[US]/ʃrʌb/
[UK]/ʃrʌb/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

n. a small to medium-sized woody plant

Phrases & Collocations

evergreen shrub

flowering shrub

pruning shrubs

drought-resistant shrub

Example Sentences

a shrub of spreading habit.

There is a small evergreen shrub on the hillside.

a shrub that displays hardiness.

Tall shrubs screen the actor's home from the curious.

small genus of Eurasian shrubs with yellow flowers and bladdery pods.

Herblike shrubs, perennial, with vertical stem and creeping rhizomes.

Woody lianas, lianoid shrubs, or small trees.

Thick shrubs blinded our downstairs windows.

He planted a number of flowering shrubs in the garden.

Overgrown deciduous shrubs can be cut back at this time of year.

small genus of mediterranean shrubs; often included in genus Genista.

4 1 They plucked saltwort and shrubs; the roots of the broom plant were their food.

shrubs and herbs and woody vines of warm regions: leadwort.

large evergreen shrubs and trees of southern Europe and western North America: strawberry tree; madrona.

These shrubs will need more light to produce flowering shoots.

The controlling test was carried out to the annual and perennial broadleaved weed and shrub on forestland with 24% picloram Sc.

2(1) Fleshy or ligneous berry; seeds wingless; scandent often arboreous shrubs or small trees.

California ground squirrels tunnel into the shrub-covered earth, feeding on meadow grass and bitterbrush.

chiefly trees and shrubs of tropical and temperate regions of especially southeastern Asia and Brazil; genera Tilia; Corchorus; Entelia; Grewia; Sparmannia.

typical halophyte landscapes are haloeremion landscape, salt marsh landscape, salt shrub landscape and saline meadow landscape.

Real-world Examples

The Coffee plant is a shrub which resembles the laurel.

Source: UK original primary school Chinese language class

All around me are short shrubs with purple stems and waxy leaves.

Source: Scientific 60 Seconds - Scientific American March 2022 Compilation

Including the white-yellow bloom of mountain avens, a hardy arctic shrub.

Source: Science in 60 Seconds Listening Compilation November 2016

But pack rats seem to eat these noxious shrubs with impunity.

Source: Science in 60 Seconds Listening Compilation August 2014

You may call the holly either a large shrub or a small tree.

Source: British Students' Science Reader

Well with these, these are shrub roses.

Source: Listening Digest

Once the tender flowers are gone, he says, it is time to enjoy the " hardworking shrubs" .

Source: VOA Slow English - Entertainment

Yaupon is, it's a native shrub that grows all along the Gulf Coast here in Central Texas.

Source: VOA Standard English_Americas

As he was strolling along, Passepartout espied some violets among the shrubs.

Source: Around the World in Eighty Days

Shrubs being little bushes are short and low to the ground.

Source: TOEFL Listening Preparation Practice

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