Shrub
noun
A small plant with several woody stems coming from the ground.
She planted three different kinds of shrubs in her garden.
Often appears as...
- decorative shrub
- flowering shrub
noun
A cocktail made from infused vinegar, sugar, fruit, and carbonated water.
The bartender made a delicious raspberry shrub for my cocktail.
Often appears as...
- drink shrub
- vinegar shrub
Usage tips
Informal
Colloquial
noun
A small plant with several woody stems coming from the ground.
She planted three different kinds of shrubs in her garden.
Often appears as...
- decorative shrub
- flowering shrub
noun
A cocktail made from infused vinegar, sugar, fruit, and carbonated water.
The bartender made a delicious raspberry shrub for my cocktail.
Often appears as...
- drink shrub
- vinegar shrub
Usage tips
Informal
Colloquial
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Not Just Small
Shrubs can be quite large, focusing on their multiple stems, not just their size.
Despite its size, the lilac is considered a shrub due to its multiple woody stems.
Pro Tip 2/3Garden Variety
Shrubs are often used in landscaping and gardens for decoration or privacy.
A row of evergreen shrubs can create a natural green fence for your yard.
Pro Tip 3/3Seasonal Changes
Many shrubs change throughout the seasons, flowering or shedding leaves.
The forsythia shrub is bare in winter but explodes with yellow flowers in spring.
Pro Tip 1/3Not Just Small
Shrubs can be quite large, focusing on their multiple stems, not just their size.
Despite its size, the lilac is considered a shrub due to its multiple woody stems.
Pro Tip 2/3Garden Variety
Shrubs are often used in landscaping and gardens for decoration or privacy.
A row of evergreen shrubs can create a natural green fence for your yard.
Pro Tip 3/3Seasonal Changes
Many shrubs change throughout the seasons, flowering or shedding leaves.
The forsythia shrub is bare in winter but explodes with yellow flowers in spring.
Pro Tip 1/3Not Just Small
Shrubs can be quite large, focusing on their multiple stems, not just their size.
Despite its size, the lilac is considered a shrub due to its multiple woody stems.
Pro Tip 2/3Garden Variety
Shrubs are often used in landscaping and gardens for decoration or privacy.
A row of evergreen shrubs can create a natural green fence for your yard.
Pro Tip 3/3Seasonal Changes
Many shrubs change throughout the seasons, flowering or shedding leaves.
The forsythia shrub is bare in winter but explodes with yellow flowers in spring.
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Finding Baby Seals on an...
which they raise whenever they're alarmed. They usually prefer to live in dense thickets of woodland, but the small trees and shrubs growing inside the barracks seems to be given this Owl all the cover it needs Absolute proof. And it was here. Beautiful feather. Yeah, it's gorgeous, right?
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Electrical experiments...
and most will say that a mouse or even a small insect has a brain, but almost nobody says that a plant or a tree or a shrub has a brain. And so when you push -- because this could actually help describe a little bit how the brain actually functions -- so you push and say,
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The life cycle of a cup...
and are now cultivated throughout equatorial regions. Each shrub is filled with small berries called "coffee cherries." Since fruits on the same branch can ripen at different times, they’re best picked by hand, but each farm has its own method for processing the fruit.
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The global movement to...
providing free ecological insights to show which species of trees, grasses, or shrubs might exist in that region, monitoring of projects so that we can all see the developments happening on the ground. And most importantly, for the sharing of ecological information
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From the top of the food...
providing more food for hawks, weasels, foxes and badgers. Bald eagles and ravens fed on the carrion that the wolves abandoned. So did bears, which also ate the berries on the returning shrubs. Bison numbers rose as they browsed the revitalized forests.
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A Forest Garden With 500...
is called succession in southwest England an unusual forest is growing nut trees fruit trees shrubs and perennials are planted in a way that mimics a natural woodland this forest garden is the life's work of Martin
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Protecting New York...
community by filling it with native ferns and shrubs and wildflowers now imagine if we took plenty of these communities pack them into shipping containers and snuck them into times square in the middle of the night
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The Call of Everest PIPE...
Hillary and Tenzing climbed Everest had been pummeled by climbing expeditions and lodges and trekking expeditions who would rip out the shrub juniper and it takes forever to grow a little little
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How bees help plants...
Pollinators include many species of bees, butterflies, moths, flies, wasps, beetles, even birds and bats, who together help pollinate many species of trees, shrubs and other flowering plants.
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How to green the world's...
with the same rainfall, and look at that. Our river is flowing and healthy and clean. It's fine. The production of grass, shrubs, trees, wildlife,
Video examples
Finding Baby Seals on an...
which they raise whenever they're alarmed. They usually prefer to live in dense thickets of woodland, but the small trees and shrubs growing inside the barracks seems to be given this Owl all the cover it needs Absolute proof. And it was here. Beautiful feather. Yeah, it's gorgeous, right?
Video examples
Electrical experiments...
and most will say that a mouse or even a small insect has a brain, but almost nobody says that a plant or a tree or a shrub has a brain. And so when you push -- because this could actually help describe a little bit how the brain actually functions -- so you push and say,
Video examples
The life cycle of a cup...
and are now cultivated throughout equatorial regions. Each shrub is filled with small berries called "coffee cherries." Since fruits on the same branch can ripen at different times, they’re best picked by hand, but each farm has its own method for processing the fruit.
Video examples
The global movement to...
providing free ecological insights to show which species of trees, grasses, or shrubs might exist in that region, monitoring of projects so that we can all see the developments happening on the ground. And most importantly, for the sharing of ecological information
Video examples
From the top of the food...
providing more food for hawks, weasels, foxes and badgers. Bald eagles and ravens fed on the carrion that the wolves abandoned. So did bears, which also ate the berries on the returning shrubs. Bison numbers rose as they browsed the revitalized forests.
Video examples
A Forest Garden With 500...
is called succession in southwest England an unusual forest is growing nut trees fruit trees shrubs and perennials are planted in a way that mimics a natural woodland this forest garden is the life's work of Martin
Video examples
Protecting New York...
community by filling it with native ferns and shrubs and wildflowers now imagine if we took plenty of these communities pack them into shipping containers and snuck them into times square in the middle of the night
Video examples
The Call of Everest PIPE...
Hillary and Tenzing climbed Everest had been pummeled by climbing expeditions and lodges and trekking expeditions who would rip out the shrub juniper and it takes forever to grow a little little
Video examples
How bees help plants...
Pollinators include many species of bees, butterflies, moths, flies, wasps, beetles, even birds and bats, who together help pollinate many species of trees, shrubs and other flowering plants.
Video examples
How to green the world's...
with the same rainfall, and look at that. Our river is flowing and healthy and clean. It's fine. The production of grass, shrubs, trees, wildlife,
Example 1 of 10
Quote examples
Shilpa Shetty
Indian Actress
I adore gardening and plan to take it up properly when I have a bit more time on my hands. Until then, I love pottering in garden centres. I'm totally low maintenance. I don't ask for fancy plants, just basic, long-lasting shrubs that look nice. But I am particular about flowers.
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Jimmy Chin
American Athlete
I've tried to eat little shrubs before. We were on an unsupported 20-plus day traverse, following the migration of endangered antelope across the Chang Tang Plateau. We were like, 'Oh, this is what they ate; we should try it.
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Alice Morse Earle
American Historian
We have very pretty Dutch gardens, so called, in America, but their chief claim to being Dutch is that they are set with bulbs, and have Delft or other earthen pots or boxes for formal plants or shrubs.
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Dries van Noten
Belgian Designer
I'm a very big fan of winter-flowering shrubs and bulbs. You have the smell, you have the color - it's really like a present from God when something like that is in flower in the middle of the snow.
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Dries van Noten
Belgian Designer
The garden is my second profession. It's 22 hectares, which is a big garden. I really need it, going from the flower garden, the shrubs and the trees, the vegetable garden, all these things.
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Jeffrey Donovan
American Actor
What would surprise a lot of people about me... I'm a gardener! I have a green thumb. I really like to get into the shrubs, the bushes, and really cultivate.
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Jonathan Scott
Canadian Entertainer
You don't need a great green thumb in order to make something look nice. A lot of times, it's just about cleaning up the weeds and trimming back the shrubs.
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Jeffrey Donovan
American Actor
I have a green thumb. I really like to get into the shrubs, the bushes, and really cultivate.
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Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
American Author
In my cosmology, indigenous wild deer are more important than exotic ornamental shrubs.
Quote examples
Shilpa Shetty
Indian Actress
I adore gardening and plan to take it up properly when I have a bit more time on my hands. Until then, I love pottering in garden centres. I'm totally low maintenance. I don't ask for fancy plants, just basic, long-lasting shrubs that look nice. But I am particular about flowers.
Quote examples
Jimmy Chin
American Athlete
I've tried to eat little shrubs before. We were on an unsupported 20-plus day traverse, following the migration of endangered antelope across the Chang Tang Plateau. We were like, 'Oh, this is what they ate; we should try it.
Quote examples
Alice Morse Earle
American Historian
We have very pretty Dutch gardens, so called, in America, but their chief claim to being Dutch is that they are set with bulbs, and have Delft or other earthen pots or boxes for formal plants or shrubs.
Quote examples
Dries van Noten
Belgian Designer
I'm a very big fan of winter-flowering shrubs and bulbs. You have the smell, you have the color - it's really like a present from God when something like that is in flower in the middle of the snow.
Quote examples
Dries van Noten
Belgian Designer
The garden is my second profession. It's 22 hectares, which is a big garden. I really need it, going from the flower garden, the shrubs and the trees, the vegetable garden, all these things.
Quote examples
Jeffrey Donovan
American Actor
What would surprise a lot of people about me... I'm a gardener! I have a green thumb. I really like to get into the shrubs, the bushes, and really cultivate.
Quote examples
Jonathan Scott
Canadian Entertainer
You don't need a great green thumb in order to make something look nice. A lot of times, it's just about cleaning up the weeds and trimming back the shrubs.
Quote examples
Jeffrey Donovan
American Actor
I have a green thumb. I really like to get into the shrubs, the bushes, and really cultivate.
Quote examples
Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
American Author
In my cosmology, indigenous wild deer are more important than exotic ornamental shrubs.
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