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to shrub
noun
A woody plant smaller than a tree, and usually with several stems from the same base.
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I wish I had some great anecdote about the moment, at the end of my freshman year, when I finally decided to pare it back to shrub length, like that it caught on fire one night when I accidentally got within a yard of a tall candle.
Biomass allocated to shrub was higher in DS than US.
We found that soil nutrient concentrations were usually related to shrub size rather than the species.
Mexican woodrats were positively related to shrub cover, and were positively, but weakly, related to woody debris.
Vegetation change, particularly from the grass to shrub life form, is a critical issue on the world's semiarid rangelands.
Furthermore, larger-bodied insectivores and omnivores were more prone to extinction due to shrub encroachment compared to small-bodied species.
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The plan includes a -- literally -- green roof on the new factory, covered with soil and ground cover plants to retain and use rainfall, and parking lot surfaces that absorb falling water and channel it to shrub-laden channels attractive to songbirds and other wildlife.
"We're down to shrubs," O'Connell said.
When it comes to shrubs and herbaceous perennials, it can get even more complex.
In the field, they are the invisible support to shrubs, flowers and plants.
Trees gave way to shrubs, shrubs to grass, as we wound our way through passes and ravines of rugged beauty, and drove across dried river beds that see water only a few weeks a year.
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