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Example sentences for: shrub

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The origins of lytico-bodig on Guam are still mysterious (as is the fact that, apparently, no one born after 1950 or so has been afflicted); there are many theories afloat, one of them involving the culinary use of the fruit of the cycad, a genus of fernlike shrub that is among the oldest forms of life on the planet.
To eliminate comparing habitat extremes, all 25 field sites share a widely distributed species of shrub, sagebrush, Artemisia tridentata (Asteraceae).
Or, to use another simile, they are like shrubs transplanted to an alien climate: sometimes the shrub loses its spreading habit or becomes dwarfed; sometimes it expands luxuriantly, taking up more space than when on native ground; occasionally, it keeps its original shape and size.
Far more interesting, though, was the idea of conservative activist government that the shrub articulated.
He reproached the much beloved garden at Dumbarton Oaks for its limited plant palate, especially what he referred to as the "forsythia mess"--a hillside covered in the yellow, early spring flowering shrub that others consider a bold sweep of color.