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shrubful

shrubful noun: an amount held in a shrub.

Noun

shrubful (plural shrubsful)

  1. An amount held in a shrub.
    • A shrubful of nannie-berries at the foot of an ancient vineyard brimmed Myra’s cup to overflowing.1906 October, Julia A[ugusta] Schwartz, “All Kinds of Sense”, in Elinor’s College Career […], Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown, and Company, Part III (The Junior Year), page 208
    • On bright days, they [sparrows] sit, peering, as from windows on their individual branches, chattering, calling, like a noisy shrubful of watching concierges.2013, Esther Woolfson, “Flying through the Storm”, in Field Notes from a Hidden City: An Urban Nature Diary, London: Granta Books, →ISBN, section “Midsummer”, page 269

Forms of shrubful

pluralshrubsful

Origin of shrubful

From shrub + -ful.

Questions about shrubful

What does shrubful mean?
Shrubful means an amount held in a shrub.
What part of speech is shrubful?
Shrubful is a noun.
What is the plural of shrubful?
The plural of shrubful is shrubsful.

Words near shrubful in the dictionary

  1. shrubby gromwell
  2. shrubby gromwells
  3. shrubby horsetail
  4. shrubby St. John's wort
  5. shrubby tororaro
  6. shrubful
  7. shrubification
  8. shrubland
  9. shrublands
  10. shrubless
  11. shrublet

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