Shrub
Shrub , noun
[Arabic shirb, shurb, a drink, beverage, from shariba to drink. Compare Sirup, Sherbet.]
A liquor composed of vegetable acid, especially lemon juice, and sugar, with spirit to preserve it.
Shrub , noun
[Old English schrob, Anglo-Saxon scrob, scrobb; akin to Norw. skrubba the dwarf cornel tree.]
(Botany) A woody plant of less size than a tree, and usually with several stems from the same root.
Shrub , transitive verb
To lop; to prune. [Obsolete] — Anderson (1573)