arbust

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noun

a bush, shrub

Scrabble 8

Meanings

nounarbust (plural arbusts)

plural arbusts

  1. a bush, shrub

    that may also contain, timber, arbusts and other plants.

    2014, Laure Ducos, Importance of the traditional land-use and land-tenure systems of Waraka
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    One afternoon, she was in her garden cutting with a knife the sprouts of a shrub taller than a man; this arbust is known by the name of bellflower.

    1910, Archives of Ophthalmology, volume 39

Origin

  1. Frencharbuste
  2. Englisharbust

Likely borrowed from French arbuste.

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APA

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Chicago

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