shrub

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n. 矮树, 灌木, 果汁甜酒

发音

其它 /ʃɹʌb/
US /ʃɹʌb/
IE /ʃɹʊb/
其它 /ʃɹʊb/

词形变化

shrubs 复数 shrubs 三单 shrubbing 现在分词 shrubbed 过去式 shrubbed 过去分词

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A woody plant smaller than a tree, and usually with several stems from the same base.

    灌木

    灌木丛

  2. 1.

    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.

    可数 不可数
  3. 1.

    A word mispronounced by replacing some consonant sounds with others of a similar place of articulation as influenced by one's mother tongue.

    俚语
v.
  1. 1.

    To lop; to prune.

    废旧
  2. 2.

    To plant a shrub in a yard, garden, etc.; to prune a bush or other plant into a shrub.

    罕用
  3. 1.

    To make or drink a shrub (liquor drink).

    罕用
  4. 1.

    To mispronounce (a word or words) in another language in a manner that is influenced by one's mother tongue.

    及物/不及物 俚语

词汇关系

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词源

From Middle English schrub, schrob, (also unassibilated as scrub), from Old English *sċrob (in placenames) and sċrybb (“a shrub; shrubbery; underbrush”); akin to Norwegian skrubbe (“the dwarf cornel tree”).

来源:wiktionary