shrub
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Danh từ
noun- 1.
A woody plant smaller than a tree, and usually with several stems from the same base.
- 2.
(countable, uncountable)A liquor composed of vegetable acid, fruit juice (especially lemon), sugar, sometimes vinegar, and a small amount of spirit as a preservative. Modern shrub is usually non-alcoholic, but in earlier times it was often mixed with a substantial amount of spirit such as brandy or rum, thus making it a liqueur.
- 3.
(Kenya, slang)A word mispronounced by replacing some consonant sounds with others of a similar place of articulation as influenced by one's mother tongue.
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verb- 1.
(obsolete)To lop; to prune.
- 2.
(rare)To plant a shrub in a yard, garden, etc.; to prune a bush or other plant into a shrub.
- 3.
(rare)To make or drink a shrub (liquor drink).
- 4.
(Kenya, ambitransitive, slang)To mispronounce (a word or words) in another language in a manner that is influenced by one's mother tongue.
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From Middle English schrub, schrob, (also unassibilated as scrub), from Old English *sċrob in placenames and sċrybb (a shrub; shrubbery; underbrush); akin to skrubbe the dwarf cornel tree. scrub.