Shrub vs Pitomba - What's the difference?
shrub | pitomba |
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.
Talisia esculenta , a South American tree.
Eugenia luschnathiana , an evergreen shrub of Brazil.
The sweetish-sour brown-skinned fruit of Talisia esculenta .
* 1984 , Gay Courter, River of Dreams
The globose orange-yellow berry of Eugenia luschnathiana .
As nouns the difference between shrub and pitomba
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 pitomba is talisia esculenta , a south american tree.As a verb shrub
is (obsolete) to lop; to prune.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)
Etymology 2
From (etyl) , akin to sirup, sherbetNoun
(en noun)Anagrams
* brushpitomba
English
Noun
(en noun)- Lucretia had made it a point not to eat anything she hadn't tasted first in Louisiana, believing she could be poisoned by the unfamiliar milky goiabas, pungent jambos, prickly graviolas, or acidy pitombas .