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shrubby, a.|ˈʃrʌbɪ|
[f. shrub n.1 + -y.]
1. Having the habit, growth, or size of a shrub; spec. having perennial woody stems rising from the root. In early use freq. applied to trees of stunted growth (cf. scrubby a.1 1).
1581Marbeck Bk. Notes 734 Mirrhe is a little shrubby tree. 1597Bacon Coulers Gd. & Euill Ess. (Arb.) 148 The shootes or vnderwood that grow neare a great..tree, is the most pyned and shrubbie wood of the field. 1630Capt. Smith Advts. Planters New Eng. 22 Three or foure short shrubby old Cedars. 1679Evelyn Sylva (ed. 3) 2 These [trees] we shall divide into the Greater and more Ceduous, Fruticant, and Shrubby. 1707Mortimer Husb. (1721) I. 66 Plants appearing Withered or Blasted, Shrubby and Curled, are the effects of immoderate Wet or Heat, and Cold interchangably. 1773Hist. Brit. Dom. Amer. ii. v. §2. 290 The timber is too small, shrubby, and gnarly. 1808Pike Sources Mississ. (1810) iii. App. 22 On all the small streams there are shrubby cotton-trees. 1884Bower & Scott De Bary's Phaner. 593 The thick masses of wood of shrubby and tree⁓like Chenopodiaceæ.
b. In specific names of plants, often rendering L. fruticosus.
1597Gerarde Herbal iii. xiv. 1129 Polemonium siue Trifolium fruticans. Shrubbie Trefoile. 1640Parkinson Theat. Bot. 1677 The shrubby wild Bay of Candy. 1775Phil. Trans. LXVI. 15 note, The brassica sylvestris, or shrubby cabbage. 1857Thoreau Maine W. ii. (1869) 98 Shrubby-willows or sallows. 1862Johns Brit. Birds 426 The Suæda fruticosa, Shrubby Sea Blite, of botanists. 1884W. Miller Plant-n. 57/2 Shrubby Grass. The genus Thamnochortus.
†c. Of persons: Stunted, undersized. Obs.
1603Owen Pembrokeshire v. (1891) 41 This kinde of people I finde to be..shorte of growth, broade, and shrubbye.
2. Of the nature of or consisting of shrubs.
1540Mem. Fountains (Surtees Soc.) 343 A close of pasture with myche shrubby wood therein. 1633T. Stafford Pac. Hib. i. iii. (1821) 43 A lowe shrubbie boggie wood. 1681R. Knox Hist. Rel. Ceylon iv. x. 165 The Woods began to be very full of Thorns, and shrubby Bushes. 1708J. Phillips Cyder i. 8 The goats their shrubby brouze gnaw pendent. 1816Scott Old Mort. xvi, Troopers..posted behind the cover of the shrubby copses of alders. 1869A. R. Wallace Malay Archip. vii. (1874) 115 The undergrowth consisting of fine herbaceous plants, tree-ferns, and shrubby vegetation.
3. Covered, planted, or overgrown with shrubs.
1598Yong Diana 441 The beauties of the shrubby hils. 1609Holland Amm. Marcell. 135 Through blind wayes in forrests and shrubbie places. 1634Milton Comus 306 Due west it rises from this shrubby point. 1717Berkeley Jrnl. Tour Italy Wks. 1871 IV. 546 A stony, rocky, shrubby tract. 1814Brackenridge Jrnl. in Views Louisiana 227, I..wandered several miles through shrubby hills. 1865W. G. Palgrave Arabia I. 218 We stopped near noon in a little shrubby plain.
4. Characteristic of a shrub or its habit.
1776Withering Bot. Arrangem. Veget. 804 Shrubby, somewhat woody, as the stems of the Rose. 1816Encycl. Perth. V. 639/1 It rises with a shrubby stalk 8 or 9 feet high. 1870Hooker Stud. Flora 203 Tanacetum..Herbs often shrubby below. 1882Garden 11 Mar. 161/1 The foliage, which is produced on a strong, round, shrubby stem, is very dark green. |