shrub
noun/ʃrʌb/
/ʃrʌb/
- a large plant that is smaller than a tree and that has several stems of wood coming from the ground
灌木 - evergreen shrubs
常青灌木 - shrub roses
木本蔷薇
Extra ExamplesTopics Plants and treesc2, Gardensc2- Overgrown deciduous shrubs can be cut back at this time of year.
过于繁茂的落叶灌木可以在每年的这个时候修剪。 - Tender shrubs don't grow well here.
不耐寒的灌木在这儿长不好。 - The bed is planted with flowering shrubs.
园圃中种有开花灌木。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- deciduous
- evergreen
- dwarf
- …
- grow
- plant
- put in
- …
- grow
- flower
- species
- rose
- be planted with shrubs
- a variety of shrub
Word OriginOld English scrubb, scrybb ‘shrubbery’; compare with West Flemish schrobbe ‘vetch’, Norwegian skrubba ‘dwarf cornel’ (a type of dogwood), also with the noun scrub senses 2 and 3. - evergreen shrubs