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shrub

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Noun

  1. A woody plant smaller than a tree, and usually with several stems from the same base.
  2. A liquor composed of vegetable acid, fruit juice (especially lemon), sugar, sometimes vinegar, and a small amount of spirit as a preservative. Modern shrub is usually non-alcoholic, but in earlier times it was often mixed with a substantial amount of spirit such as brandy or rum, thus making it a liqueur.
  3. A word mispronounced by replacing some consonant sounds with others of a similar place of articulation as influenced by one's mother tongue.

Verb

  1. To lop; to prune.
  2. To plant a shrub in a yard, garden, etc.; to prune a bush or other plant into a shrub.
  3. To make or drink a shrub (liquor drink).
  4. To mispronounce (a word or words) in another language in a manner that is influenced by one's mother tongue.

Proper noun

  1. George W. Bush (born 1946), the 43rd president of the United States (2001–2009).

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