Ornamental vs Shrub - What's the difference?
ornamental | shrub |
Serving to ornament; characterized by ornament; beautifying; embellishing.
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.
As nouns the difference between ornamental and shrub
is that ornamental is an ornamental plant while shrub is a woody plant smaller than a tree, and usually with several stems from the same base or shrub can be 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.As an adjective ornamental
is serving to ornament; characterized by ornament; beautifying; embellishing.As a verb shrub is
(obsolete) to lop; to prune.ornamental
English
(wikipedia ornamental)Adjective
(en adjective)- Some think it most ornamental to wear their bracelets on their wrists; others, about their ankles.
shrub
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)