Shrub vs Grass - What's the difference?
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A woody plant smaller than a tree, and usually with several stems from the same base.
(obsolete) To lop; to prune.
(Kenya) To mispronounce a word by replacing its consonant sound(s) with another or others of a similar place of articulation.
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.
(countable, uncountable) Any plant of the family Poaceae, characterized by leaves that arise from nodes in the stem and leaf bases that wrap around the stem, especially those grown as ground cover rather than for grain.
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, title= (countable) Various plants not in family Poaceae that resemble grasses.
(uncountable) A lawn.
(uncountable, slang) Marijuana.
(countable, slang) An informer, police informer; one who betrays a group (of criminals, etc) to the authorities.
(uncountable, physics) Sharp, closely spaced discontinuities in the trace of a cathode-ray tube, produced by random interference.
(uncountable, slang) Noise on an A-scope or similar type of radar display.
The season of fresh grass; spring.
* Latham
(obsolete, figurative) That which is transitory.
* Bible Is. xl. 7
To lay out on the grass; to knock down (an opponent etc.).
* 1893 , Arthur Conan Doyle, ‘The Naval Treaty’, Norton 2005, p.709:
(transitive, or, intransitive, slang) To act as a grass or informer, to betray; to report on (criminals etc) to the authorities.
To cover with grass or with turf.
To expose, as flax, on the grass for bleaching, etc.
To bring to the grass or ground; to land.
In transitive terms the difference between shrub and grass
is that shrub is (Kenya) To mispronounce a word by replacing its consonant sound(s) with another or others of a similar place of articulation while grass is to bring to the grass or ground; to land.As nouns the difference between shrub and grass
is that shrub is a woody plant smaller than a tree, and usually with several stems from the same base while grass is any plant of the family Poaceae, characterized by leaves that arise from nodes in the stem and leaf bases that wrap around the stem, especially those grown as ground cover rather than for grain.As verbs the difference between shrub and grass
is that shrub is to lop; to prune while grass is to lay out on the grass; to knock down (an opponent etc.).As a proper noun Grass is
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English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) ; akin to Norwegian skrubba the dwarf cornel treeNoun
(en noun)Synonyms
* bush (plant)Derived terms
* semishrubby * shrubbery * shrubby * subshrub * undershrubVerb
- For example , ? sr?b)
Etymology 2
From (etyl) , akin to sirup, sherbetNoun
(en noun)Anagrams
* brushgrass
English
(wikipedia grass)Noun
Mr. Pratt's Patients, chapter=1 , passage='Twas early June, the new grass was flourishing everywheres, the posies in the yard—peonies and such—in full bloom, the sun was shining, and the water of the bay was blue, with light green streaks where the shoal showed.}}
- two years old next grass
- Surely the people is grass .
Synonyms
* ''Gramineae (alternative name)Derived terms
* grasshopper * grass widow * grassy * lemongrass * ryegrass * supergrassSee also
* (Poaceae) *Verb
(es)- He flew at me with his knife, and I had to grass him twice, and got a cut over the knuckles, before I had the upper hand of him.
- to grass a fish