A shrub or woody plant; an archaic or literary term for a bush or small woody tree.
From Latin 'arbustum,' related to 'arbor' (tree) and 'arbusta' (shrubland). An archaic English botanical term.
This is the kind of word that fell out of favor when English botanists switched to more precise Latinate terminology, but it persists in older poetry and historical gardening texts.
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