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# shrub

«shrub» in Mova's school dictionary: **A woody plant smaller than a tree, with several stems…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a shrub, shrubs)

### meaning for a pupil

A woody plant smaller than a tree, with several stems growing from near the ground; a bush. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shrub/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In science and gardening, shrubs (lavender, rosemary, holly, hydrangea, gorse) are a plant group between small plants and trees. Gardens and parks have shrub borders; birds nest in shrubs. Phrases: «plant a shrub», «flowering shrub», «shrub border», «trees and shrubs».

### examples

- Lavender is a shrub with purple flowers. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shrub/#x1)
- Birds built a nest in the shrub by the fence. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shrub/#x2)
- We planted shrubs along the school path. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shrub/#x3)
- A shrub has many woody stems, but a tree usually has one trunk. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shrub/#x4)
- The gardener trimmed the shrubs into round shapes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shrub/#x5)
- Rosemary is a shrub that smells lovely. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shrub/#x6)
- It was a large shrub, completely covered with the most magnificent flowers in the world. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shrub/#x7)

### note

Countable. Similar word: bush (more everyday). A group of shrubs: shrubbery. Trap: «shrub» vs «tree» — a tree usually has one main trunk and grows tall.

### In the corpora

- [Goats prefer leaves, twigs and shrubs to grass, and in Morocco some goats climb argan trees to eat the fruit.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/211-sheep-and-goats-wool-flocks-climbers-and-the-tin-can-myth/10/)
- [And the water in the bottle was spent, and she cast the child under one of the shrubs.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.556/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «shrub» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shrub/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.