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- pronunciation:
- shruhb
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noun |
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Shrubs are bushes. A shrub is a plant that has a hard stem and thin, hard branches that begin very close to the ground. Some shrubs can get as high as a small tree. Shrubs grow naturally, but people like to use them for outdoor decoration too. They often plant shrubs around houses and other buildings, and they trim them and keep them fairly short.
The city planted shrubs all along the sides of the new library building.
- similar words:
- bush
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| derivations: |
shrubless (adj.), shrublike (adj.) |
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