| 释义 |
shrub1/ʃrʌb/n. a woody plant smaller than a tree and having a very short stem with branches near the ground 灌木 □ shrubby adj.[Old English scrubb, scrybb ‘shrubbery’: cf. North Frisian skrobb ‘brushwood’, West Flemish schrobbe ‘vetch’, Norwegian skrubba ‘dwarf cornel’, and SCRUB2] |