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Definition of Subshrubs
1. subshrub [n] - See also: subshrub
Lexicographical Neighbors of Subshrubs
Literary usage of Subshrubs
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1917)
"Mostly trees and shrubs, rarely subshrubs, with alternate simple Ivs. and ...
Perennial herbs or subshrubs, glabrous or hispid, hardy but not much grown: ..."
2. Cyclopedia of American Horticulture: Comprising Suggestions for Cultivation by Liberty Hyde Bailey, Wilhelm Miller (1902)
"About 18 species of shrubs and small trees, rarely subshrubs, native to tropical
.... The species are annuals, perennials or subshrubs: Irs. alternate, ..."
3. Biodiversity and the Management of the Madrean Archipelago: The Sky Islands edited by Leonard F. DeBano (1999)
"In some burned areas cover of these subshrubs exceeded that in unburned areas.
Forbs that showed a strong positive response following the burn were ..."
4. Gardening in California: Landscape and Flower by John McLaren (1908)
"A genus comprising over one hundred species of hardy biennial herbs or subshrubs.
Some of them are exceedingly handsome, the stately spikes of ..."
5. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"Most of the 200 or more widely distributed species are weedy herbs or subshrubs.
The best known species is the common plantain or ..."
6. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1915)
"L jj_ B. Low, spreading, climbing or erect herbs or subshrubs: Ivs. stalked,
opposite, the margins not toothed in the domestic species: fls. very small, ..."
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