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We found 32 dictionaries that define the word shrub:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. shrub: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. shrub, shrub: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. shrub, shrub: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. shrub: Collins English Dictionary
  5. shrub: Vocabulary.com
  6. Shrub, shrub: Wordnik
  7. shrub: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Shrub, shrub: Wiktionary
  9. shrub: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. shrub: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. shrub: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. shrub: Dictionary.com
  13. shrub: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. shrub: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Shrub (disambiguation), Shrub (drink), Shrub: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Shrub: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. shrub: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. shrub: Rhymezone
  19. shrub: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. shrub: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. shrub: Free Dictionary
  22. shrub: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. shrub: Dictionary/thesaurus

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. shrub: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
  2. GreenWeb Gardening Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Flora of New South Wales (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. The Shrub, shrub: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A woody plant smaller than a tree, and usually with several stems from the same base.
noun:  (Kenya) A word mispronounced by replacing some consonant sounds with others of a similar place of articulation due to interference from one's knowledge of an indigenous Kenyan language.
verb:  (obsolete) To lop; to prune.
verb:  (transitive, Kenya) To mispronounce a word by replacing some consonant sounds with others of a similar place of articulation due to interference from one's knowledge of an indigenous Kenyan language.
verb:  (rare) To plant a shrub in a yard, garden, etc.; to prune a bush or other plant into a shrub.
verb:  (rare) To make or drink a shrub (liquor drink).
noun:  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.
noun:  (US politics, derogatory) George W. Bush (born 1946), the 43rd president of the United States (2001–2009).

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