SUBSHRUB

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does subshrub mean? 

• SUBSHRUB (noun)
  The noun SUBSHRUB has 1 sense:

1. low-growing woody shrub or perennial with woody base

  Familiarity information: SUBSHRUB used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SUBSHRUB (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Low-growing woody shrub or perennial with woody base

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

subshrub; suffrutex

Hypernyms ("subshrub" is a kind of...):

bush; shrub (a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "subshrub"):

Dryas octopetala; mountain avens (creeping evergreen shrub with large white flowers; widely distributed in northern portions of Eurasia and North America)

beggar's lice; beggar lice; tick trefoil (any of various tropical and subtropical plants having trifoliate leaves and rough sticky pod sections or loments)

Hedysarum boreale; sweet vetch (perennial of western United States having racemes of pink to purple flowers followed by flat pods that separate into nearly orbicular joints)

French honeysuckle; Hedysarum coronarium; sulla (perennial of southern Europe cultivated for forage and for its nectar-rich pink flowers that make it an important honey crop)

Hippocrepis comosa; horseshoe vetch (European woody perennial with yellow umbellate flowers followed by flattened pods that separate into horseshoe-shaped joints)

cube (any of several tropical American woody plants of the genus Lonchocarpus whose roots are used locally as a fish poison and commercially as a source of rotenone)

compass plant; Lotus americanus; prairie bird's-foot trefoil; prairie lotus; prairie trefoil (North American annual with red or rose-colored flowers)

coral gem; Lotus berthelotii (low-growing much-branched perennial of Canary Islands having orange-red to scarlet or purple flowers; naturalized in United States)

babies' slippers; bacon and eggs; bird's foot clover; bird's foot trefoil; Lotus corniculatus (European forage plant having claw-shaped pods introduced in America)

Indian beet; Lupinus perennis; old-maid's bonnet; sundial lupine; wild lupine (stout perennial of eastern and central North America having palmate leaves and showy racemose blue flowers)

Ononis repens; rest-harrow; restharrow (European woody plant having pink flowers and unifoliate leaves and long tough roots; spreads by underground runners)

Ononis spinosa; rest-harrow; restharrow (Eurasian plant having loose racemes of pink or purple flowers and spiny stems and tough roots)

hoary pea (a plant of the genus Tephrosia having pinnate leaves and white or purplish flowers and flat hairy pods)

kiss-me-over-the-garden-gate; Polygonum orientale; prince's-feather; prince's-plume; princess feather (annual with broadly ovate leaves and slender drooping spikes of crimson flowers; southeastern Asia and Australia; naturalized in North America)

eriogonum (any plant of the genus Eriogonum with small clustered flowers)

Cassia tora; Senna obtusifolia; sicklepod (cosmopolitan tropical herb or subshrub with yellow flowers and slender curved pods; a weed; sometimes placed in genus Cassia)

avens (any of various perennials of the genus Geum having usually pinnate basal leaves and variously colored flowers)

Prunus besseyi; Rocky Mountains cherry; Western sand cherry (dwarf ornamental shrub of western United States having large black to red and yellow sweet edible fruit)

woodruff (any plant of the genus Asperula)

Linnaea borealis; twinflower (creeping evergreen subshrub of the northern parts of Europe and Asia with delicate fragrant tubular bell-shaped usually pink flowers borne in pairs)

milkwort (any of various plants of the genus Polygala)

caltrop; devil's weed; Tribulus terestris (tropical annual procumbent poisonous subshrub having fruit that splits into five spiny nutlets; serious pasture weed)

pachysandra (any plant of the genus Pachysandra; low-growing evergreen herbs or subshrubs having dentate leaves and used as ground cover)

Aeonium haworthii; pinwheel (perennial subshrub of Tenerife having leaves in rosettes resembling pinwheels)

phlomis (any of various plants of the genus Phlomis; grown primarily for their dense whorls of lipped flowers and attractive foliage)

Jerusalem sage; Phlomis fruticosa (a spreading subshrub of Mediterranean regions cultivated for dense axillary whorls of purple or yellow flowers)

germander (any of various plants of the genus Teucrium)

blue curls (any of several plants of the genus Trichostema having whorls of small blue flowers)

eringo; eryngo (any plant of the genus Eryngium)

matchbush; matchweed (any of several plants of the genus Gutierrezia having tiny flower heads that resemble the heads of matches)

Amsonia tabernaemontana; blue star (subshrubs of southeastern United States forming slow-growing clumps and having blue flowers in short terminal cymes)

periwinkle (chiefly trailing poisonous plants with blue flowers)

Aralia nudicaulis; false sarsaparilla; wild sarsaparilla; wild sarsparilla (common perennial herb having aromatic roots used as a substitute for sarsaparilla; central and eastern North America)

American spikenard; Aralia racemosa; life-of-man; petty morel (unarmed woody rhizomatous perennial plant distinguished from wild sarsaparilla by more aromatic roots and panicled umbels; southeastern North America to Mexico)

Aralia hispida; bristly sarsaparilla; bristly sarsparilla; dwarf elder (bristly herb of eastern and central North America having black fruit and medicinal bark)

bloodleaf (any plant of the genus Iresine having colored foliage)

Cleome pinnata; desert plume; prince's-plume; Stanleya pinnata (perennial of southwestern United States having leathery blue-green pinnatifid leaves and thick plumelike spikes of yellow flowers; sometimes placed in genus Cleome)

California tree poppy; matilija poppy; Romneya coulteri (tall branching subshrub of California and Mexico often cultivated for its silvery-blue foliage and large fragrant white flowers)

burdock; clotbur (any of several erect biennial herbs of temperate Eurasia having stout taproots and producing burs)

Argyranthemum frutescens; Chrysanthemum frutescens; marguerite; marguerite daisy; Paris daisy (perennial subshrub of the Canary Islands having usually pale yellow daisylike flowers; often included in genus Chrysanthemum)

wormwood (any of several low composite herbs of the genera Artemisia or Seriphidium)

sage brush; sagebrush (any of several North American composite subshrubs of the genera Artemis or Seriphidium)

beggar's-ticks; beggar-ticks; bur marigold; burr marigold; sticktight (any of several plants of the genus Bidens having yellow flowers and prickly fruits that cling to fur and clothing)

centaury (any plant of the genus Centaurea)

darling pea; poison bush (either of two Australian plants of the genus Swainsona that are poisonous to sheep)

guayule; Parthenium argentatum (much-branched subshrub with silvery leaves and small white flowers of Texas and northern Mexico; cultivated as a source of rubber)

American feverfew; Parthenium integrifolium; prairie dock; wild quinine (stout perennial herb of the eastern United States with whitish flowers; leaves traditionally used by Catawba Indians to treat burns)

bastard pimpernel; chaffweed; false pimpernel (weedy plant having short dry chafflike leaves)

thrift (any of numerous sun-loving low-growing evergreens of the genus Armeria having round heads of pink or white flowers)

marsh rosemary; sea lavender; statice (any of various plants of the genus Limonium of temperate salt marshes having spikes of white or mauve flowers)

corchorus (any of various plants of the genus Corchorus having large leaves and cymose clusters of yellow flowers; a source of jute)

diapensia (any boreal low-growing evergreen plant of the genus Diapensia)

loosestrife (any of numerous herbs and subshrubs of the genus Lythrum)

deer grass; meadow beauty (any of several plants of the genus Rhexia usually having pink-purple to magenta flowers; eastern North America)

St John's wort (any of numerous plants of the genus Hypericum having yellow flowers and transparently dotted leaves; traditionally gathered on St John's eve to ward off evil)

false heather; golden heather; Hudsonia ericoides (North American decumbent evergreen heathlike plant with yellow flowers)

beach heather; Hudsonia tomentosa; poverty grass (small heathlike plant covered with white down growing on beaches in northeastern North America)

Cassia fasciculata; Chamaecrista fasciculata; partridge pea; sensitive pea; wild sensitive plant (tropical American plant having leaflets somewhat sensitive to the touch; sometimes placed in genus Cassia)

 Context examples 

A substance derived from any of several Old World coarse prickly-leaved shrubs and subshrubs including the plant Silybum marianum.

(Milk thistle, NCI Thesaurus)