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shrub

/ˈʃɹʌb/ noun B2
  1. A woody plant smaller than a tree, and usually with several stems from the same base.

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Already she was acquainted with every tree and shrub about the place.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 62 · C1
Then Dantès rose more agile and light than the kid among the myrtles and shrubs of these wild rocks, took his gun in one hand, his pickaxe in the other, and hastened towards the rock on which the marks he had noted terminated.
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 253 · C1
Between these sickly shrubs grew a scanty supply of garlic, tomatoes, and eschalots; while, lone and solitary, like a forgotten sentinel, a tall pine raised its melancholy head in one of the corners of this unattractive spot, and displayed its flexible stem and fan-shaped summit dried and cracked by the fierce heat of the sub-tropical sun.
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 277 · C1
Shrubs and creeping plants covered the windows, and hid from the garden and court these two apartments, the only rooms into which, as they were on the ground floor, the prying eyes of the curious could penetrate.
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 424 · C1

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