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Word entry · 5 letters

shrub

Best crossword clue

"Low woody bush"

5 letters · collected on this word page

5 lettersPronunciation /ˈʃɹʌb/Part of speech nounSorted bhrsuStarts with SEnds with B2 cluesCommon crossword word
1S2H3R4U5B

Definitions

  1. a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems

Word origin

From Middle English schrub, schrob, (also unassibilated as scrub), from Old English *sċrob (in placenames) and sċrybb (“a shrub; shrubbery; underbrush”); akin to Norwegian skrubbe (“the dwarf cornel tree”).

Used in a sentence

  • Tara flour is one of two products made from the seed pods of a thorny shrub native to Peru. One of those, tara gum, has been used safely for years as a thickening agent or stabilizer in human foods.
  • The Papistes[…]though they be woll shrubbed, and shred, yet they begin euen nowe before the springe, to budde.
  • However, Mwandani and her brother had noted that their mother had shrubbed and pointed it out right away.

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Used as a crossword answer2 curated clues

01Low woody bush5 letters
02Low woody plant5 letters

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