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A dark blue, edible berry with a white bloom, and its shrub (Gaylussacia frondosa) closely allied to the common huckleberry. The bush is also called blue tangle, and is found from New England to Kentucky, and southward.

A genus of diminutive Shrubs, mostly evergreen, and with fragrant blossoms.

A shrub of the blueberry group (Vaccinium stamineum); also, its bitter, greenish white berry; -- called also squaw huckleberry.

Resembling in structure a tree or shrub.

A stone or mineral on or in which are branching figures resembling shrubs or trees, produced by a foreign mineral, usually an oxide of manganese, as in the moss agate; also, a crystallized mineral having an arborescent form, e. g., gold or silver; an arborization.

Pertaining to a dendrite, or to arborescent crystallization; having a form resembling a shrub or tree; arborescent.

Resembling a shrub or tree in form; treelike.

A petrified or fossil shrub, plant, or part of a plant.

A genus of shrubs with pretty white flowers, much cultivated.

In a dissimilar manner; in a varied style. With verdant shrubs dissimilarly gay. C. Smart.

; discernible; capable of recognition; as, a tree at a distance is distinguishable from a shrub. A simple idea being in itself uncompounded . . . is not distinguishable into different ideas. Locke.

The Cornus, a genus of large shrubs or small trees, the wood of which is exceedingly hard, and serviceable for many purposes.

A genus of shrubs growing in Australia, having beautiful, hard, dry, evergreen leaves.

r (Passiflora Murucuja); also, its fruit. -- Dutchman's pipe (Bot.), an American twining shrub (Aristolochia Sipho). Its flowers have their calyx tubes curved like a tobacco pipe.

Like a dwarf; below the common stature or size; very small; petty; as, a dwarfish animal, shrub. -- Dwarf"ish*ly, adv. -- Dwarf"ish*ness, n.

A genus of shrubs or small trees, having the foliage covered with small silvery scales; oleaster.

A genus of shrubs (Sambucus) having broad umbels of white flowers, and small black or red berries.

by ornaments; to decorate; to adorn; as, to embellish a book with pictures, a garden with shrubs and flowers, a narrative with striking anecdotes, or style with metaphors.

A genus of shrubs, natives of Australia, New Zealand, etc., having pretty white, red, or purple blossoms, and much resembling heaths.

A genus of shrubby plants, including the heaths, many of them producing beautiful flowers.