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🇫🇷French Source WordCode: FR

arbuste

Pronunciation / Transliteration: ar-bust

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Shrub/ʃrʌb/
nounCEFR B2 (Upper)Top #4520 frequency
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🇫🇷 Example Sentence in French:

"Le jardin était rempli d'arbustes colorés qui fleurissaient au printemps."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    A woody plant that is smaller than a tree and has several main stems arising at or near the ground.

    "The garden was filled with colorful shrubs that bloomed in the spring."
  2. 2

    A plant that is typically less than 6 meters tall and has a bushy appearance.

    "They planted a row of shrubs along the fence for privacy."
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Synonyms (3)
Antonyms & Contrasting Words (1)

Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the Old English 'scrȳbb', meaning a brushwood or thicket, related to Old Norse 'skrubba'. Historically, it referred to rough, low-lying woody vegetation before evolving into the standard botanical term for multi-stemmed perennial woody plants.

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