how to pronounce shrub

/ʃɹʌb/

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shrub is pronounced in one syllable

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An example use of shrub in a speech by a native speaker of british english:

“… to do with the shrub chucking the Cobra …”

meaning of shrub

A shrub is a small tree or bush.

shrub frequency in english - C2 level of CEFR

the word shrub occurs in english on average 2.6 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for C2 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.