† virgultn.
Obsolete.
1. A bush or shrub; a set of young shoots; a branch or twig.
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the world > plants > by growth or development > defined by habit > tree or woody plant > characterized by habit > [noun] > shrub or bush
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virgult?1553
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bush-tuft1586
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scrub-tree1749
?1553 (c1501) G. Douglas Palice of Honour (London) Prol. l. 107 in Shorter Poems (1967) 14 Amyd the virgultis all in tyl a fary As femynine sa feblyt fell I doun.
1656 T. Blount Glossographia Virgult,..a company of young shoots, or many young tender Sprigs and Sprouts growing together out of the ground.
1657 R. Tomlinson tr. J. de Renou Medicinal Materials i, in Medicinal Dispensatory sig. Ii3v Certain red berries adhere to its virgults.
2. A thicket or copse.
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the world > plants > by growth or development > defined by habit > tree or woody plant > wood or assemblage of trees or shrubs > [noun] > thicket, brake, or brush
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puckerbrush1867
1736 F. Drake Eboracum i. vii. 334 A toft and a virgult, and three other measures of land.
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