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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In botany, a shrub; a plant having a woody, durable stem, but smaller than a tree.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Bot.) A plant having a woody, durable stem, but less than a tree; a shrub.

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  • noun botany A plant with a woody, durable stem, but less than a tree; a shrub.

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