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subshrub Hort.|ˈsʌbʃrʌb|
[f. sub- 3 + shrub n.1, to render mod.L. suffrutex (see suffruticose). Cf. the earlier undershrub.]
An undershrub, or very small shrub.
1851Glenny Handbk. Fl. Gard. 11 The double-flowered varieties..may be..treated as perennial sub-shrubs. 1886G. Nicholson Illustr. Dict. Gardening II. 168/1 Hypericum... An extensive genus..of greenhouse or hardy, evergreen or deciduous, herbs, shrubs, or sub⁓shrubs. 1957R. E. Woodson et al. Rauwolfia i. 11 The smallest species appears to be..a truly rhizomatous subshrub only six inches tall. 1980Country Life 13 Mar. 790/1 Among sub-shrubs profitably treated as herbaceous and cut back to the ground now is mint-scented, sun-basking Elsholtzia stauntonii.
So ˈsubshrubby a., resembling a subshrub, suffruticose.
1843Florist's Jrnl. (1846) IV. 140 It is a dwarf and compact-growing plant, apparently of an evergreen herbaceous or subshrubby habit. 1851Glenny Handbk. Fl. Gard. 67 Mathiola incana, the queen stock, is a sub-shrubby kind. 1856Delamer Fl. Gard. 107 The terms ‘sub-shrubby plants’ and ‘suffruticose trees’ have been invented, to designate those individuals which occupy intermediate positions in the long series of the vegetable kingdom. |