- USA Today Crossword
- January 14 2024
- Shrub
Shrub
We have found the following answers matching the query 'Shrub' in our database: For more stats and recent usage scroll down and continue reading. Shrub crossword clue was last seen on January 14 2024 in the popular USA Today Crossword.
Rank | Answer | Clue | Publisher | 99% | BUSH | Shrub | USA Today |
20% | FORSYTHIA | Ornamental shrub | Thomas Joseph |
20% | PRUNES | Trims, as shrubs | Newsday |
20% | CRANBERRYBUSH | Shrub that bears acidic red fruit (2005) | Wall Street Journal |
20% | MYRTLE | Fragrant evergreen shrub | Newsday |
20% | QAT | Arabian shrub whose leaves are chewed as a stimulant | Wall Street Journal |
Definition
• | A thicket, or place abounding in trees or shrubs; a wild forest. |
• | A shrub; esp., a shrub with branches rising from or near the root; a thick shrub or a cluster of shrubs. |
• | A shrub cut off, or a shrublike branch of a tree; as, bushes to support pea vines. |
• | A shrub or branch, properly, a branch of ivy (as sacred to Bacchus), hung out at vintners' doors, or as a tavern sign; hence, a tavern sign, and symbolically, the tavern itself. |
• | The tail, or brush, of a fox. |
• | To branch thickly in the manner of a bush. |
• | To set bushes for; to support with bushes; as, to bush peas. |
• | To use a bush harrow on (land), for covering seeds sown; to harrow with a bush; as, to bush a piece of land; to bush seeds into the ground. |
• | A lining for a hole to make it smaller; a thimble or ring of metal or wood inserted in a plate or other part of machinery to receive the wear of a pivot or arbor. |
• | A piece of copper, screwed into a gun, through which the venthole is bored. |
• | To furnish with a bush, or lining; as, to bush a pivot hole. |
Recent Usage in Crossword Puzzles:
- USA Today: Jan 14, 2024
- New York Times: Aug 16, 2023
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