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shrubby

/shruhb-ee/US // ˈʃrʌb i //UK // (ˈʃrʌbɪ) //

灌木状的,灌木状,灌木型,灌木丛生的

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1

    shrub·bi·er, shrub·bi·est.

    • : consisting of or abounding in shrubs.
    • : resembling a shrub; shrublike.

Examples

  • The shrubby apparatus reminded Burns of a termite mound, with a communal store of resources and the segregation of different jobs in the colony.

  • It bears a truly desolate appearance, being nothing but ridges of bare white sand, scantily crowned with a few shrubby bushes.

  • The town stands upon an elevated prairie, upon which may be found a few groves of shrubby timber.

  • I measured some near the Highland Light in Truro, which had been taken from the shrubby woods thereabouts when young, and grafted.

  • These lanes were very dusty at the time, and were hemmed in with an uninteresting shrubby growth on each side.

  • Araliace, which is nearly related to the Umbellifer, but the species are of a more shrubby habit.