Shrub vs Copperleaf - What's the difference?
shrub | copperleaf |
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.
, a shrub with shiny bronze-green leaves and small green flowers.
Other similar-looking species of Acalypha
As nouns the difference between shrub and copperleaf
is that shrub is a woody plant smaller than a tree, and usually with several stems from the same base while copperleaf is species: Acalypha wilkesiana, a shrub with shiny bronze-green leaves and small green flowers.As a verb shrub
is to lop; to prune.shrub
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Etymology 1
From (etyl) ; akin to Norwegian skrubba the dwarf cornel treeNoun
(en noun)Synonyms
* bush (plant)Derived terms
* semishrubby * shrubbery * shrubby * subshrub * undershrubVerb
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