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Arbuscular :: Arbuscular (a.) Of or pertaining to a dwarf tree; shrublike.

Rubescence :: Rubescence (n.) The quality or state of being rubescent; a reddening; a flush.

Samphire :: Samphire (n.) A seashore shrub (Borrichia arborescens) of the West Indies.

Rubytail :: Rubytail (n.) A European gold wasp (Chrysis ignita) which has the under side of the abdomen bright red, and the other parts deep bluish green with a metallic luster. The larva is parasitic in the nests of other wasps and of bees..

Weed :: Weed (n.) Underbrush; low shrubs.

Jewbush :: "Jewbush (n.) A euphorbiaceous shrub of the genus Pedilanthus (P. tithymaloides), found in the West Indies, and possessing powerful emetic and drastic qualities..

Rhamnus :: Rhamnus (n.) A genus of shrubs and small trees; buckthorn. The California Rhamnus Purshianus and the European R. catharticus are used in medicine. The latter is used for hedges.

Stowce :: Stowboard (n.) A place into which rubbish is put.

Friz :: Friz (v. t.) To soften and make of even thickness by rubbing, as with pumice stone or a blunt instrument..

Runner :: Runner (n.) A movable slab or rubber used in grinding or polishing a surface of stone.

Stercolin :: Stercobilin (n.) A coloring matter found in the faeces, a product of the alteration of the bile pigments in the intestinal canal, -- identical with hydrobilirubin..

Heath :: Heath (n.) A place overgrown with heath; any cheerless tract of country overgrown with shrubs or coarse herbage.

Soboles :: Soboles (n.) A sucker, as of tree or shrub..

Rubric :: Rubric (a.) Alt. of Rubrica.

Rubiacin :: Rubiacin (n.) A substance found in madder root, and probably identical with ruberythrinic acid..

Shrubby :: Shrubby (superl.) Of the nature of a shrub; resembling a shrub.

Trabu :: Trabu (n.) Same as Trubu.

Starch :: Starch (n.) A widely diffused vegetable substance found especially in seeds, bulbs, and tubers, and extracted (as from potatoes, corn, rice, etc.) as a white, glistening, granular or powdery substance, without taste or smell, and giving a very peculiar creaking sound when rubbed between the fingers. It is used as a food, in the production of commercial grape sugar, for stiffening linen in laundries, in making paste, etc..

Drubbing :: Drubbing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dru.

Barberry :: Barberry (n.) A shrub of the genus Berberis, common along roadsides and in neglected fields. B. vulgaris is the species best known; its oblong red berries are made into a preserve or sauce, and have been deemed efficacious in fluxes and fevers. The bark dyes a fine yellow, esp. the bark of the root..

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