Shrub vs Snakeroot - What's the difference?
shrub | snakeroot |
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.
Any member of the genus of perennials and rounded shrubs from the sunflower family, growing mainly in the warmer regions of the Americas.
As nouns the difference between shrub and snakeroot
is that shrub is a woody plant smaller than a tree, and usually with several stems from the same base while snakeroot is any member of the genus genus: Ageratina of perennials and rounded shrubs from the sunflower family, growing mainly in the warmer regions of the Americas.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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