shrub

Other forms of shrub

plural

shrubs·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about shrub

What does shrub mean?

shrub means "a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems".

How many syllables are in shrub?

shrub has 1 syllable: shrub. In IPA it is /ˈʃɹʌb/.

What is another word for shrub?

Close synonyms include bush. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is shrub a common word?

shrub is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.