a large plant that is smaller than a tree and that has several stems of wood coming from the ground synonym bush灌木 evergreen shrubs 常青灌木 shrub roses 木本蔷薇
Extra ExamplesTopics Plants and treesc2, Gardensc2Overgrown 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.