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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Consisting of, planted with, or covered with shrubs.
  • adjective Of or resembling a shrub.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Abounding in shrubs.
  • Consisting of shrubs.
  • Shrub-like; scrubby: said of stunted tree-growths.
  • Somewhat woody: said of herbaceous plants with the stem more or less lignified in the older parts.

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

  • adjective Full of shrubs.
  • adjective Of the nature of a shrub; resembling a shrub.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Of or resembling a shrub; fruticose
  • adjective Planted, or covered with shrubs

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective of or relating to or resembling a shrub

Etymologies

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shrub +‎ -y

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