shrub

Plural: shrubs

Noun

A woody plant smaller than a tree, usually with multiple stems.
a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems
A woody plant smaller than a tree, and usually with several stems from the same base.
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.
A word mispronounced by replacing some consonant sounds with others of a similar place of articulation as influenced by one's mother tongue.

Verb

To lop; to prune.
To plant a shrub in a yard, garden, etc.; to prune a bush or other plant into a shrub.
To make or drink a shrub (liquor drink).
To mispronounce (a word or words) in another language in a manner that is influenced by one's mother tongue.

Examples

Finding a short, three-letter word like SHRUB can sometimes grow into a high-scoring play in Words With Friends.

Origin / Etymology

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”).

Synonyms

bush

Scrabble Score: 10

shrub: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
shrub: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
shrub: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 11

shrub: valid Words With Friends Word