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Definitions

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. An herb having a woody lower stem.
  2. n. A low shrub; an undershrub.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A low-growing woody shrub or perennial with woody base.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. low-growing woody shrub or perennial with woody base

Etymologies

  1. Formed by the combination of sub- +‎ shrub after the scientific Latin suffrutex. Compare the earlier undershrub. (Wiktionary)

Examples

  • “Dianella consists of about 30 rhizomatous herb or subshrub species, many of which are, like today's plant, native to Australia.”

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synonyms (1)

Words with the same meaning

  1. suffrutex

hypernyms (2)

Words that are more generic or abstract

  1. shrub
  1. bush

hyponyms (135)

Words that are more specific

  1. dryas octopetala
  2. petty morel
  3. prairie bird's-foot trefoil
  4. bristly sarsparilla
  5. american spikenard
  6. beggar-ticks
  7. mountain avens
  8. loosestrife
  9. wild lupine
  10. eriogonum
  11. tick trefoil
  12. bastard pimpernel
  13. old-maid's bonnet
  14. chamaecrista fasciculata
  15. hoary pea
  16. clotbur
  17. hedysarum boreale
  18. matchweed
  19. bristly sarsaparilla
  20. diapensia
  21. darling pea
  22. lupinus perennis
  23. St. John's wort
  24. western sand cherry
  25. matchbush
  26. bur marigold
  27. false heather
  1. blue curls
  2. wild sarsaparilla
  3. hippocrepis comosa
  4. prunus besseyi
  5. lotus corniculatus
  6. tribulus terestris
  7. germander
  8. caltrop
  9. pinwheel
  10. sagebrush
  11. princess feather
  12. babies' slippers
  13. cube
  14. wild sensitive plant
  15. french honeysuckle
  16. wild sarsparilla
  17. corchorus
  18. jerusalem sage
  19. aralia hispida
  20. ononis spinosa
  21. dwarf elder
  22. statice
  23. bacon and eggs
  24. prince's-feather
  25. bird's foot clover
  26. desert plume
  27. false pimpernel
  1. wild quinine
  2. beggar's lice
  3. life-of-man
  4. polygonum orientale
  5. compass plant
  6. aralia nudicaulis
  7. eringo
  8. cleome pinnata
  9. hudsonia ericoides
  10. Sulla
  11. blue star
  12. beach heather
  13. Paris daisy
  14. parthenium argentatum
  15. avens
  16. cassia tora
  17. lotus berthelotii
  18. prairie trefoil
  19. deer grass
  20. bird's-foot trefoil
  21. hedysarum coronarium
  22. prince's-plume
  23. stick-tight
  24. phlomis
  25. romneya coulteri
  26. marsh rosemary
  27. american feverfew
  1. matilija poppy
  2. senna obtusifolia
  3. chrysanthemum frutescens
  4. bloodleaf
  5. burr marigold
  6. beggar-lice
  7. phlomis fruticosa
  8. prairie lotus
  9. milkwort
  10. coral gem
  11. guayule
  12. rest-harrow
  13. thrift
  14. wormwood
  15. sweet vetch
  16. parthenium integrifolium
  17. sicklepod
  18. sundial lupine
  19. linnaea borealis
  20. horseshoe vetch
  21. periwinkle
  22. sensitive pea
  23. poverty grass
  24. centaury
  25. pachysandra
  26. ononis repens
  27. devil's weed
  1. california tree poppy
  2. stanleya pinnata
  3. aralia racemosa
  4. burdock
  5. prairie dock
  6. eryngo
  7. hudsonia tomentosa
  8. lotus americanus
  9. rocky mountains cherry
  10. partridge pea
  11. poison bush
  12. golden heather
  13. false sarsaparilla
  14. argyranthemum frutescens
  15. kiss-me-over-the-garden-gate
  16. marguerite daisy
  17. aeonium haworthii
  18. chaffweed
  19. indian beet
  20. cassia fasciculata
  21. meadow beauty
  22. amsonia tabernaemontana
  23. sea lavender
  24. woodruff
  25. beggar's ticks
  26. twinflower
  27. marguerite

reverse dictionary (85)

Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. matilija poppy
  2. tribulus terestris
  3. twinflower
  4. Paris daisy
  5. parthenium argentatum
  6. phlomis fruticosa
  7. romneya coulteri
  8. senna obtusifolia
  9. sicklepod
  10. devil's weed
  11. guayule
  12. jerusalem sage
  13. linnaea borealis
  14. marguerite
  15. marguerite daisy
  16. pinwheel
  17. aeonium haworthii
  1. argyranthemum frutescens
  2. california tree poppy
  3. caltrop
  4. cassia tora
  5. chrysanthemum frutescens
  6. butter-print
  7. tephrosia virginiana
  8. teucrium canadense
  9. teucrium chamaedrys
  10. turpentine weed
  11. vase vine
  12. vase-fine
  13. velvetleaf
  14. velvetweed
  15. wall germander
  16. white zinnia
  17. wild sweet pea
  1. winter savory
  2. wood sage
  3. yellow avens
  4. zinnia acerosa
  5. zinnia grandiflora
  6. pachysandra terminalis
  7. rabbit-weed
  8. rabbitweed
  9. red sorrel
  10. roselle
  11. Rozelle
  12. salt marsh mallow
  13. satureia montana
  14. satureja montana
  15. sensitive plant
  16. shame plant
  17. snakeweed
  1. felicia amelloides
  2. geum alleppicum strictum
  3. geum strictum
  4. gutierrezia sarothrae
  5. hibiscus sabdariffa
  6. indian rattlebox
  7. indigo plant
  8. indigofera tinctoria
  9. jamaica sorrel
  10. Japanese spurge
  11. kosteletzya virginica
  12. leather flower
  13. little golden zinnia
  14. live-and-die
  15. melampodium leucanthum
  16. mimosa pudica
  17. sorrel
  1. touch-me-not
  2. abutilon theophrasti
  3. action plant
  4. american germander
  5. blackfoot daisy
  6. blue daisy
  7. blue marguerite
  8. broom snakeroot
  9. broom snakeweed
  10. catgut
  11. China jute
  12. clematis viorna
  13. crotalaria spectabilis
  14. goat's rue
  15. humble plant
  16. Indian mallow
  17. indigo

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