shrub

noun
🔊/ʃrʌb/
🔊/ʃrʌb/
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  1. a large plant that is smaller than a tree and that has several stems of wood coming from the ground 灌木synonym bush
    • evergreen shrubs常青灌木
    • shrub roses木本蔷薇
    Extra Examples
    • Overgrown deciduous shrubs can be cut back at this time of year.过于繁茂的落叶灌木可以在每年的这个时候修剪。
    • Tender shrubs don't grow well here.不耐寒的灌木在这儿长不好。
    • The bed is planted with flowering shrubs.园圃中种有开花灌木。
    Topics Plants and treesc2, Gardensc2
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective
    • deciduous
    • evergreen
    • dwarf
    verb + shrub
    • grow
    • plant
    • put in
    shrub + verb
    • grow
    • flower
    shrub + noun
    • species
    • rose
    phrases
    • be planted with shrubs
    • a variety of shrub
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    Word OriginOld English scrubb, scrybb ‘shrubbery’; compare with West Flemish schrobbe ‘vetch’, Norwegian skrubba ‘dwarf cornel’ (a type of dogwood), also with the noun scrub senses 2 and 3.