SHRUBBED

Etymology

Adjective

shrubbed (not comparable)

Having shrubs.

a richly-shrubbed garden

Source: Wiktionary


SHRUB

Shrub, n. Etym: [Ar. shirb, shurb, a drink, beverage, fr. shariba to drink. Cf. Sirup, Sherbet.]

Definition: A liquor composed of vegetable acid, especially lemon juice, and sugar, with spirit to preserve it.

Shrub, n. Etym: [OE. schrob, AS. scrob, scrobb; akin to Norw. skrubba the dwarf cornel tree.] (Bot.)

Definition: A woody plant of less size than a tree, and usually with several stems from the same root.

Shrub, v. t.

Definition: To lop; to prune. [Obs.] Anderson (1573).

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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UNINFORMATIVELY

(adverb) in an uninformative manner; “‘I can’t tell you when the manager will arrive,’ he said rather uninformatively”


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