/ ʃrʌb; NAmE / noun
a large plant that is smaller than a tree and that has several stems of wood coming from the ground
SYN bush
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WORD ORIGIN
Old English scrubb , scrybb shrubbery ; compare with West Flemish schrobbe vetch, Norwegian skrubba dwarf cornel (a type of dogwood), also with the noun scrub senses 2 and 3.