shrub

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This shrub is an important source of food for bees, providing them with nourishment in the summer months when most woody plants have already ceased flowering.

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  1. noun A woody plant of relatively low height, having several stems arising from the base and lacking a single trunk; a bush.
  2. noun A beverage made from fruit juice, sugar, and a liquor such as rum or brandy.

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  1. Middle English schrubbe, from Old English scrybb; see sker-1 in Indo-European roots.
  2. From Arabic šurb, a drink, from šariba, to drink; see śrb in Semitic roots.

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  1. from Middle English shrob, schrub, schrob, an assibilated form of scrub, *scrob, from Anglo-Saxon scrob, a shrub; preserved in Scrob-scire, Shropshire, Scrobbes-byrig, Shrewsbury (literally Shrubsbury), Scrobbes-byrig-scyre, Shrewsburyshire, the older name of Shropshire; cf. scrybbe, a shrubbery. Cf. English dial. shruff, also scroff, refuse wood. See scrub.
  2. from shrub, n.
  3. A variant of shrab (from Arabic sharāb), or a transposed form of shurb, from Arabic shurb, shirb, a drink, a beverage, from shariba. drink. Cf. shrab, sherbet, and syrup, from the same source.
 

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