noun
Meaning 1
A low-growing woody shrub or perennial with a woody base.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: suffrutex
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
subshrub
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noun
Meaning 2
low-growing woody shrub or perennial with woody base
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: suffrutex
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: shrub, bush
Narrower terms: darling pea, poison bush, blue star, Amsonia tabernaemontana, periwinkle, wild sarsaparilla, false sarsaparilla, wild sarsparilla, Aralia nudicaulis, American spikenard, petty morel, life-of-man, Aralia racemosa, bristly sarsaparilla, bristly sarsparilla, dwarf elder, Aralia hispida, bloodleaf, desert plume, prince's-plume, Stanleya pinnata, Cleome pinnata, matilija poppy, California tree poppy, Romneya coulteri, burdock, clotbur, marguerite, marguerite daisy, Paris daisy, Chrysanthemum frutescens, Argyranthemum frutescens, wormwood, sagebrush, sage brush, bur marigold, burr marigold, beggar-ticks, beggar's-ticks, sticktight, centaury, matchweed, matchbush, guayule, Parthenium argentatum, American feverfew, wild quinine, prairie dock, Parthenium integrifolium, chaffweed, bastard pimpernel, false pimpernel, thrift, sea lavender, marsh rosemary, statice, corchorus, diapensia, loosestrife, deer grass, meadow beauty, St John's wort, false heather, golden heather, Hudsonia ericoides, beach heather, poverty grass, Hudsonia tomentosa, partridge pea, sensitive pea, wild sensitive plant, Chamaecrista fasciculata, Cassia fasciculata, sicklepod, Senna obtusifolia, Cassia tora, tick trefoil, beggar lice, beggar's lice, sweet vetch, Hedysarum boreale, French honeysuckle, sulla, Hedysarum coronarium, horseshoe vetch, Hippocrepis comosa, cube, prairie bird's-foot trefoil, compass plant, prairie lotus, prairie trefoil, Lotus americanus, coral gem, Lotus berthelotii, bird's foot trefoil, bird's foot clover, babies' slippers, bacon and eggs, Lotus corniculatus, wild lupine, sundial lupine, Indian beet, old-maid's bonnet, Lupinus perennis, restharrow, rest-harrow, Ononis repens, Ononis spinosa, hoary pea, prince's-feather, princess feather, kiss-me-over-the-garden-gate, Polygonum orientale, eriogonum, mountain avens, Dryas octopetala, avens, Western sand cherry, Rocky Mountains cherry, Prunus besseyi, woodruff, twinflower, Linnaea borealis, milkwort, caltrop, devil's weed, Tribulus terestris, pachysandra, pinwheel, Aeonium haworthii, phlomis, Jerusalem sage, Phlomis fruticosa, germander, blue curls, eryngo, eringo
History
Etymology
Formed by the combination of sub- + shrub after the scientific Latin suffrutex. Compare the earlier undershrub.