Definitions for shrub

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Spelling: [shruhb]
IPA: /ʃrʌb/

Shrub is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 48 anagrams from letters in shrub (bhrsu).

Definitions for shrub

noun

  1. a woody plant smaller than a tree, usually having multiple permanent stems branching from or near the ground.
  2. any of various acidulated beverages made from the juice of fruit, sugar, and other ingredients, often including alcohol.

Origin of shrub

before 1000; Middle English shrubbe, Old English scrybb brushwood; cognate with dialectal Danish skrub

Examples for shrub

What is it, Walter—a shrub or a tree or a flower, or a mixture of all of them?

Dendroid: tree or shrub-like: branching like a tree or shrub.

Nearly every tree and shrub that will grow in this climate is here to be found.

They search every tree, shrub, and vine for caterpillars, spiders and grasshoppers.

A shrub rather than a tree, cultivated from Siberia; hardy throughout.

A low tree, or usually merely a shrub, from Japan; often cultivated.

The shrub grows wild on elevations between 1000 and 4000 feet.

Not a tree was to be seen, nor even a shrub big enough to make a toothpick.

Marie stooped to pluck a flower, and slipped behind the shrub.

Not a tree nor shrub was to be found in this inhospitable region.

Word Value for shrub
Scrable

10

Words with friends

11

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