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A liquor composed of vegetable acid, especially lemon juice, and sugar, with spirit to preserve it.

A collection of shrubs.

Quality of being shrubby.

Full of shrubs.

having no shrubs. Byron.

Partly shrublike.

Being without shrubs.

An evergreen shrub (Hibiscus -- formerly Abelmoschus- moschatus), of the East and West Indies and Northern Africa, whose musky seeds are used in perfumery and to flavor coffee; -- sometimes called musk mallow.

A genus of leguminous trees and shrubs. Nearly 300 species are Australian or Polynesian, and have terete or vertically compressed leaf stalks, instead of the bipinnate leaves of the much fewer species of America, Africa, etc. Very few are found in temperate climates.

An ornamental evergreen shrub (Rhamnus alaternus) belonging to the buckthorns.

An oriental shrub (Lawsonia inermis) from which henna is obtained.

rners, etc.; the bark by dyers and tanners. In the U. S. the species of alder are usually shrubs or small trees. Black alder. (a) A European shrub (Rhamnus frangula); Alder buckthorn. (b) An American species of holly (Ilex verticillata), bearing red berries.

nnamon, nutmegs, and cloves; and hence the name. The name is also given to other aromatic shrubs; as, the Carolina allspice (Calycanthus floridus); wild allspice (Lindera benzoin), called also spicebush, spicewood, and feverbush.

A genus of succulent plants, some classed as trees, others as shrubs, but the greater number having the habit and appearance of evergreen herbaceous plants; from some of which are prepared articles for medicine and the arts. They are natives of warm countries.

An ornamental shrub (Hibiscus Syriacus) of the Mallow family.

A species of Anthospermum, a shrub with evergreen leaves, which, when bruised, emit a fragrant odor.

A genus of leguminous shrubs, having long clusters of purple flowers; false or bastard indigo. Longfellow.

The candied leaf stalks of angelica. Angelica tree, a thorny North American shrub (Aralia spinosa), called also Hercules' club.

A tree, as distinguished from a shrub.

Having the form, constitution, or habits, of a proper tree, in distinction from a shrub. Loudon.