I'm going to plant a shrub.
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Shrub
//ʃɹʌb//
Synonyms for "shrub" (79 found)
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Closest matches (16)
Strong matches (24)
Related words (39)
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2 entriesAntonyms
1 entriesSynonyms
1 entriesderived
21 entriesShowing 16 of 21 words.
etymologically related_to
2 entrieshas context
1 entriesis a
1 entriesrelated to
32 entriesShowing 16 of 32 words.
Translations
125 translations across 85 languages.
Afrikaans
1 entries- struik noun (woody plant)
Albanian
1 entries- shkurre noun (woody plant)
Ancient Greek
1 entries- θάμνος noun (woody plant)
Arabic
2 entries- شَرَاب noun (drink)
- شُجَيْرَة noun (woody plant)
Aragonese
1 entries- arbuzo noun (woody plant)
Armenian
1 entries- թուփ noun (woody plant)
Azerbaijani
1 entries- kol noun (woody plant)
Bashkir
1 entries- ҡыуаҡ noun (woody plant)
Basque
2 entries- zuhaixka noun (woody plant)
- zuhamuxka noun (woody plant)
Belarusian
2 entries- куст noun (woody plant)
- хмызня́к noun (woody plant)
Bengali
1 entries- গুল্ম noun (woody plant)
Brunei Malay
1 entries- puhun noun (woody plant)
Bulgarian
1 entries- храст noun (woody plant)
Burmese
1 entries- ချုံ noun (woody plant)
Catalan
1 entries- arbust noun (woody plant)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 灌木 noun (woody plant)
- 灌木叢 /灌木丛 noun (woody plant)
Czech
1 entries- keř noun (woody plant)
Danish
1 entries- busk noun (woody plant)
Dutch
2 entries- heester noun (woody plant)
- struik noun (woody plant)
Esperanto
1 entries- arbedo noun (woody plant)
Estonian
1 entries- põõsas noun (woody plant)
Finnish
3 entries- pensas noun (woody plant)
- shrub noun (drink)
- varpu noun (woody plant)
French
2 entries- arbrisseau noun (woody plant)
- arbuste noun (woody plant)
Galician
4 entries- albustre noun (woody plant)
- arbusto noun (woody plant)
- frundío noun (woody plant)
- gamallo noun (woody plant)
Georgian
1 entries- ბუჩქი noun (woody plant)
German
2 entries- Busch noun (woody plant)
- Strauch noun (woody plant)
Greek
1 entries- θάμνος noun (woody plant)
Greenlandic
2 entries- orpigaq noun (woody plant)
- orpikkat noun (woody plant)
Hebrew
1 entries- שִׂיחַ noun (woody plant)
Hindi
1 entries- झाड़ी noun (woody plant)
Hopi
1 entries- himutski noun (woody plant)
Hungarian
1 entries- cserje noun (woody plant)
Icelandic
1 entries- runni noun (woody plant)
Indonesian
1 entries- belukar noun (woody plant)
Irish
3 entries- srúb noun (drink)
- tom noun (woody plant)
- tor noun (woody plant)
Italian
1 entries- arbusto noun (woody plant)
Japanese
1 entries- 低木 noun (woody plant)
Kazakh
1 entries- бұта noun (woody plant)
Khmer
1 entries- ចុល្លព្រឹក្ស noun (woody plant)
Korean
1 entries- 관목 noun (woody plant)
Lao
1 entries- ໄມ້ພຸ່ມ noun (woody plant)
Latin
2 entries- arbuscula noun (woody plant)
- frutex noun (woody plant)
Latvian
1 entries- krūms noun (woody plant)
Lithuanian
1 entries- krūmas noun (woody plant)
Low German
2 entries- Hucht noun (woody plant)
- Struuk noun (woody plant)
Lower Sorbian
2 entries- kerk noun (woody plant)
- keŕ noun (woody plant)
Macedonian
2 entries- грму́шка noun (woody plant)
- џбун noun (woody plant)
Malay
1 entries- renek noun (woody plant)
Maltese
1 entries- arbuxxell noun (woody plant)
Marathi
2 entries- क्षुप noun (woody plant)
- झुडुप noun (woody plant)
Middle English
1 entries- schrub noun (woody plant)
Mongolian
1 entries- бут noun (woody plant)
Māori
2 entries- mauwha noun (woody plant)
- mere noun (woody plant)
Norman
1 entries- arbuste noun (woody plant)
Norwegian
1 entries- busk noun (woody plant)
Old English
1 entries- scrybb noun (woody plant)
Persian
2 entries- بوته noun (woody plant)
- درختچه noun (woody plant)
Plautdietsch
1 entries- Bosch noun (woody plant)
Polish
3 entries- kierzek noun (woody plant)
- krzak noun (woody plant)
- krzew noun (woody plant)
Portuguese
2 entries- arbusto noun (woody plant)
- moita noun (woody plant)
Quechua
1 entries- qhura noun (woody plant)
Romanian
2 entries- arbust noun (woody plant)
- tufă noun (woody plant)
Russian
2 entries- куст noun (woody plant)
- куста́рник noun (woody plant)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- grm noun (woody plant)
- грм noun (woody plant)
Slovak
2 entries- ker noun (woody plant)
- krík noun (woody plant)
Slovene
1 entries- grm noun (woody plant)
Spanish
2 entries- arbusto noun (woody plant)
- mata noun (woody plant)
Swahili
2 entries- miraa noun (woody plant)
- miraa noun (drink)
Swedish
1 entries- buske noun (woody plant)
Tagalog
2 entries- lantana noun (woody plant)
- palumpong noun (woody plant)
Tajik
1 entries- бутта noun (woody plant)
Tatar
1 entries- куак noun (woody plant)
Thai
2 entries- พุ่ม noun (woody plant)
- ไม้พุ่ม noun (woody plant)
Turkish
1 entries- ağaççık noun (woody plant)
Ugaritic
1 entries- 𐎌𐎈𐎚 noun (woody plant)
Ukrainian
1 entries- кущ noun (woody plant)
Upper Sorbian
1 entries- kerk noun (woody plant)
Urdu
1 entries- جھاڑی noun (woody plant)
Uzbek
1 entries- buta noun (woody plant)
Vietnamese
3 entries- bụi cây noun (woody plant)
- cây bụi noun (woody plant)
- cây nhỏ noun (woody plant)
Volapük
3 entries- bimül noun (woody plant)
- jöb noun (woody plant)
- smabim noun (woody plant)
Woiwurrung
1 entries- yerin noun (woody plant)
Yakut
1 entries- ыарҕа noun (woody plant)
Yiddish
1 entries- קשאַק noun (woody plant)
Zulu
1 entries- isihlahla noun (woody plant)
Sample sentences
23 total sentences available.
I have a large shrub in my front lawn that needs to be trimmed.
Source: tatoeba (6143155)
Can you help me replant this shrub?
Source: tatoeba (6680174)
This shrub has to go.
Source: tatoeba (6710520)
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