Definition of Shrubby

1. Adjective. Of or relating to or resembling a shrub.

Exact synonyms: Fruticose, Fruticulose
Partainyms: Shrub
Derivative terms: Shrub

Definition of Shrubby

1. a. Full of shrubs.

Definition of Shrubby

1. Adjective. Of or resembling a shrub; fruticose ¹

2. Adjective. Planted, or covered with shrubs ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Shrubby

1. covered with shrubs [adj -BIER, -BIEST]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Shrubby

shrowds
shrowed
shrowing
shrows
shrthnd
shrub
shrub celery
shrub vegetation
shrubbed
shrubberies
shrubbery
shrubbier
shrubbiest
shrubbiness
shrubbing
shrubby (current term)
shrubby St John's wort
shrubby penstemon
shrubland
shrublands
shrubless
shrublet
shrublike
shrubs
shrubsteppe
shrubsteppes
shruff
shrug
shrug off
shrugged

Literary usage of Shrubby

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Floral World and Garden Guide by Shirley Hibberd (1864)
"shrubby, sufficiently vigorous, flower medium, of a rosy white, ... shrubby, very vigorous, flower very large ; full, lively carmine red, flowering in ..."

2. English Botany, Or, Coloured Figures of British Plants, with Their Essential by James Edward Smith, James Sowerby (1812)
"Male, scattered warts. Female, smooth shields or tubercles, in which the seeds are imbedded. SPEC. 'Сила. shrubby, tubular, grey, forked, much branched, ..."

3. An Encyclopaedia of Trees and Shrubs: Being the Arboretum Et Fruticetum by John Claudius Loudon (1869)
"GENUS X. POTENTI'LLA L. THE POTENTILLA, or shrubby ... Pot, 30. t 1. ; and our/7;. 546. Spec. Char., S;c. Stem shrubby. ..."

4. Trees and Shrubs: An Abridgment of the Arboretum Et Fruticetum Britannicum by John Claudius Loudon (1875)
"It is a shrubby bramble, 5 or 6 feet high. R. tiliaceus Smith in Kees'i Cycl. vol. xxx. is a native ... GENUS X. POTENTI'LLA L. THE POTENTILLA, or shrubby ..."

5. Cyclopedia of American Horticulture: Comprising Suggestions for Cultivation by Liberty Hyde Bailey, Wilhelm Miller (1900)
"The first known garden species, still sold as an annual. лл. shrubby ... More shrubby : 1rs. linear and clustered, toothed, sessile, not hairy : fls. small, ..."

6. Chambers's Encyclopaedia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge for the People (1868)
"... mostly climbers, having tendrils which spring from the axils of the leaves, herbaceous or half shrubby, natives of tropical and subtropical countries, ..."

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