A dwarf shrub, especially one that is woody only at the base.
〔植〕半灌木；小灌木
Example sentencesExamples
Three are narrowly endemic to the Lake Wales Ridge (Liatris ohlingerae, Polygonella myriophylla, and Prunus geniculata), nine are herbs, two are shrubs and one is a woody prostrate subshrub.
The English thymes have broader leaves than the French; both are well-mannered garden plants that grow as subshrubs.
The host plant is an early successional, evergreen, nitrogen-fixing subshrub that grows on glacial moraine and river bars.
All are tropical or subtropical shrubs or subshrubs (a somewhat woody plant sometimes grown and used as a shrub or perennial).
The plants of this subgenus are shrubs, subshrubs, perennial or annual herbs, and have a worldwide distribution.
Derivatives
subshrubby
adjective
Botany
Within typical groups of the shrubby and subshrubby stratum, representatives of families of eudicots are common.
Example sentencesExamples
This form is a mat-former with somewhat broader leaves than the somewhat subshrubby expression with rather linear leaves found at lower elevations from east-central Washington to east-central Oregon.
The species in this section are subshrubby with the stems being woody or succulent at the base.
These subshrubby, evergreen plants, which produce their flowers in the winter, are found wild in Mexico and Central America.
Definition of subshrub in US English:
subshrub
nounˈsəbˌSHrəb
Botany
A dwarf shrub, especially one that is woody only at the base.
〔植〕半灌木；小灌木
Example sentencesExamples
All are tropical or subtropical shrubs or subshrubs (a somewhat woody plant sometimes grown and used as a shrub or perennial).
The host plant is an early successional, evergreen, nitrogen-fixing subshrub that grows on glacial moraine and river bars.
Three are narrowly endemic to the Lake Wales Ridge (Liatris ohlingerae, Polygonella myriophylla, and Prunus geniculata), nine are herbs, two are shrubs and one is a woody prostrate subshrub.
The plants of this subgenus are shrubs, subshrubs, perennial or annual herbs, and have a worldwide distribution.
The English thymes have broader leaves than the French; both are well-mannered garden plants that grow as subshrubs.