n. a woody plant smaller than a tree and having a very short stem with branches near the ground. shrubby adj.
[ ME f. OE scrubb, scrybb shrubbery: cf. NFris. skrobb brushwood, WFlem. schrobbe vetch, Norw. skrubba dwarf cornel, and SCRUB(2) ]
n. a woody plant smaller than a tree and having a very short stem with branches near the ground. shrubby adj.
[ ME f. OE scrubb, scrybb shrubbery: cf. NFris. skrobb brushwood, WFlem. schrobbe vetch, Norw. skrubba dwarf cornel, and SCRUB(2) ]
Concise Oxford English dictionary. Краткий оксфордский словарь английского языка. 2012