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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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- noun A woody plant of relatively low height, having several stems arising from the base and lacking a single trunk; a bush.
- noun A beverage made from fruit juice, sugar, and a liquor such as rum or brandy.
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- A violent green shrub which is ground up, mixed with twigs and gelatine and served with clonmult (q.v.) and buldoo (q.v.) in a container referred to for no known reason as a 'relish tray'. — The Meaning of Liff
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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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This shrub is the artemisia_--a species of wild sage or wormwood,--and the plains upon which it grows are called by the hunters, who cross them, the sage prairies_.
— The Desert Home The Adventures of a Lost Family in the Wilderness -
Be careful not to let the sun shine on them at any time, as this would cause the leaves to lose their fresh colour Aralia Sieboldi (_Fig Palm_).--This shrub is an evergreen, and is generally given stove culture, though it proves quite hardy in the open, where its large deep-green leaves acquire a beauty surpassing those grown indoors.
— Gardening for the Million -
The tea shrub is an evergreen, being in flower from
— A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 09 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time
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- Middle English schrubbe, from Old English scrybb; see sker-1 in Indo-European roots.
- From Arabic šurb, a drink, from šariba, to drink; see śrb in Semitic roots.
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