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Shrub vs Spearwood - What's the difference?

shrub | spearwood |

As nouns the difference between shrub and spearwood

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 spearwood is (australia) the erect woody evergreen shrub , endemic to western australia.

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

    spearwood

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • (Australia) The erect woody evergreen shrub , endemic to Western Australia.
  • * 1966 , Western Australian Forests Department, Bulletin , Issues 63-77, page 62,
    • Peppermint (Agonis flexuosa''), attaining heights of up to 30 feet, is the principal understorey species in the south, while ''Banksia menziesii'', ''Banksia grandis'', ''Banksia attenuata'', ''Casuarina fraseriana'', black wattle and spearwood (''Kunzea ericifolia ) predominate in the north.
  • * 1998 , Noel Hoffman, Andrew Brown, Orchids of South-West Australia , page 201,
    • In these areas it is found usually under Spearwood , Kunzea ericifolia in low-lying situations adjoining winter-wet swamps.
  • (Australia) The shrub .
  • * 1976 , Society for Growing Australian Plants, Australian Plants , Volume 9, Issue 69 - Volume 10, Issue 84, page 379,
    • Clinging to the sparse soil beneath the trees are the hardy acacias — Spearwood (Acacia doratoxylon ), with its long, narrow leaves (up to 10cm long by 2-5mm wide), a tall shrub with golden-yellow flower spikes to 2cm;.
  • (Australia) The flowering vine .
  • (Australia) The eucalypt .

    • Synonyms

    * (Kunzea ericifolia) (swamp spearwood) * (Eucalyptus doratoxylon) (spearwood mallee)

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