shrub
要点低木
意味
- (根もとからたくさん枝分かれしている)低木,かん木
例文
"What is it?" "Well, you see, I wanted the shrubs pruned."
「どうしたの?」「あのね、植木の枝の剪定をして欲しかったのよ」
語源
英語の原文(Wiktionary)
From Middle English schrub, schrob, (also unassibilated as scrub), from Old English *sċrob (in placenames) and sċrybb (“a shrub; shrubbery; underbrush”); akin to Norwegian skrubbe (“the dwarf cornel tree”). Doublet of scrub.