shrub

«shrub» in Mova's school dictionary: A woody plant smaller than a tree, with several stems… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a shrub, shrubs)

meaning for a pupil

A woody plant smaller than a tree, with several stems growing from near the ground; a bush. tree →

sense in the lessons

In science and gardening, shrubs (lavender, rosemary, holly, hydrangea, gorse) are a plant group between small plants and trees. Gardens and parks have shrub borders; birds nest in shrubs. Phrases: «plant a shrub», «flowering shrub», «shrub border», «trees and shrubs».

examples

• Lavender is a shrub with purple flowers. tree →
• Birds built a nest in the shrub by the fence. tree →
• We planted shrubs along the school path. tree →
• A shrub has many woody stems, but a tree usually has one trunk. tree →
• The gardener trimmed the shrubs into round shapes. tree →
• Rosemary is a shrub that smells lovely. tree →
• It was a large shrub, completely covered with the most magnificent flowers in the world. tree →

note

Countable. Similar word: bush (more everyday). A group of shrubs: shrubbery. Trap: «shrub» vs «tree» — a tree usually has one main trunk and grows tall.

In the corpora

• Goats prefer leaves, twigs and shrubs to grass, and in Morocco some goats climb argan trees to eat the fruit.
• And the water in the bottle was spent, and she cast the child under one of the shrubs.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «shrub» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.