Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A very low-growing shrub.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A plant of shrubby habit, but scarcely attaining the dimensions of a shrub; a very small shrub. See
suffrutex .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Partly shrublike.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
shrub that has a low-growing habit
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a low shrub
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Examples
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A barren fragment of undershrub, with opposite fleshy leaves with recurved margins.
The Land of Midian 2003
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The best variety of _L. vera_ -- and there are several, although unnamed -- improved by cultivation in England, presents the appearance of an evergreen undershrub of about two feet in height, with grayish green linear leaves, rolled under at the edges, when young; the branches are erect and give a bushy appearance to the plant; the flowers are borne on
Scientific American Supplement, No. 799, April 25, 1891 Various
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It is an undershrub, the stem of which is compressed and angular below, and armed with prickles at the angles.
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I took a botanical account of stock of our domains before the dew was off, and found that the ground-hemlock, or American yew, was the prevailing undershrub.
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= Hyssop = (_Hyssopus officinalis_, Linn.), a perennial evergreen undershrub of the Labiatæ, native of the Mediterranean region.
Culinary Herbs: Their Cultivation Harvesting Curing and Uses M. G. Kains
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It is an evergreen climbing undershrub, having whitish green flowers, and grows readily from suckers.
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Lemon thyme (_T. citriodorus_, Pers.), like its common relative, is a little undershrub, with procumbent stems and with a particularly pleasing fragrance.
Culinary Herbs: Their Cultivation Harvesting Curing and Uses M. G. Kains
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The indigo plant, SWAINSONA GALEGIFOLIA, is a glabrous perennial, or undershrub, with erect flexuose branches, sometimes under one foot, sometimes ascending, or even climbing, to the height of several feet.
The History of Australian Exploration from 1788 to 1888 Ernest Favenc 1876
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A barren fragment of undershrub, with opposite fleshy leaves with recurved margins.
The Land of Midian — Volume 2 Richard Francis Burton 1855
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; _L. spica_, Linn.), a half-hardy perennial undershrub, native of dry, calcareous uplands in southern Europe.
Culinary Herbs: Their Cultivation Harvesting Curing and Uses M. G. Kains
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