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shrub

The correct spelling is shrub.

How to pronounce shrub

/ʃɹʌb/
noun

IPA: /ʃɹʌb/

Say it like: Shr-ub

The correct spelling is shrub. A woody plant smaller than a tree, and usually with several stems from the same base.

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Meanings

noun

  1. 1.A woody plant smaller than a tree, and usually with several stems from the same base.
  2. 2.A liquor composed of vegetable acid, fruit juice (especially lemon), sugar, sometimes vinegar, and a small amount of spirit as a preservative. Modern shrub is usually non-alcoholic, but in earlier times it was often mixed with a substantial amount of spirit such as brandy or rum, thus making it a liqueur.

verb

  1. 1.To lop; to prune.
  2. 2.(Kenyan English) To mispronounce a word by replacing its consonant sound(s) with another or others of a similar place of articulation.

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