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Shrub vs Iboga - What's the difference?

shrub | iboga |

As nouns the difference between shrub and iboga

is that 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 while iboga is (taxlink), a perennial rainforest shrub and a source of the hallucinogen ibogaine.

As a verb shrub

is (obsolete) to lop; to prune.

shrub

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) ; akin to Norwegian skrubba the dwarf cornel tree

Noun

(en noun)
  • A woody plant smaller than a tree, and usually with several stems from the same base.
    • Synonyms
    * bush (plant)
    Derived terms
    * semishrubby * shrubbery * shrubby * subshrub * undershrub

    Verb

  • (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.
    • For example , ? sr?b)

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) , akin to sirup, sherbet

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • 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.

    • Anagrams

    * brush

    iboga

    English

    (Tabernanthe iboga) (Tabernanthe iboga)

    Noun

    (-)
  • (taxlink), a perennial rainforest shrub and a source of the hallucinogen ibogaine.
  • * 1985 , Richard Alan Miller, The Magical and Ritual Use of Aphrodisiacs , page 41,
    • The powdered bark (especially the root bark) of the iboga shrub is consumed by the natives of Gabon and part of the Congo in the initiation rites of a number of secret societies.
  • * 2004 , Chris D. Meletis, Jason E. Barker, Herbs and Nutrients for the Mind: A Guide to Natural Brain Enhancers , page 15,
    • Native to Africa, Iboga' has been used ceremonially as a hallucinogen. A powerful medicinal plant, ' Iboga has several pharmacological effects that have led it to be employed in the use of breaking addictive cycles, including tobacco and alcohol addiction.
  • * 2009 , Marlene Dobkin de Rios, The Psychedelic Journey of Marlene Dobkin de Rios , page 85,
    • Under the influence of iboga , the Bwiti initiates are able to communicate directly with an assembly of dead ones—a chain of ancestors.
    The initiate falls to the ground in a stupor after drinking the iboga brew.

    Derived terms

    * ibogaine