SHRUBLET

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does shrublet mean? 

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

1. dwarf shrub

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• SHRUBLET (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Dwarf shrub

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("shrublet" 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 "shrublet"):

creeping snowberry; Gaultheria hispidula; maidenhair berry; moxie plum (slow-growing procumbent evergreen shrublet of northern North America and Japan having white flowers and numerous white fleshy rough and hairy seeds)

checkerberry; creeping wintergreen; Gaultheria procumbens; ground-berry; groundberry; mountain tea; teaberry; wintergreen (creeping shrub of eastern North America having white bell-shaped flowers followed by spicy red berrylike fruit and shiny aromatic leaves that yield wintergreen oil)

California fuchsia; Epilobium canum canum; humming bird's trumpet; Zauschneria californica (shrublet of southwestern United States to Mexico having brilliant scarlet flowers)

Derivation:

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