What's the difference between rowan and shrub?

Rowan


Definition:

  • (n.) Rowan tree.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Rowan Moore is architecture critic of the Observer Conran retrospective, New Review page 36
  • (2) Additionally, rather than listing Davis’s name, it says “city of Morehead”, the Rowan County seat.
  • (3) The trust said records suggested this year had yielded the best crops of autumn fruit and berries – particularly blackberries, rowan berries and elderberries – since it began the "citizen science" project 12 years ago.
  • (4) Or as Rowan Blanchard , a 13-year-old actress, neatly put it, “the way a black woman experiences sexism and inequality is different from the way a white woman experiences sexism and inequality”.
  • (5) The campaign, which wants a skyline commission to examine London's future profile, has also obtained the support of the Observer 's architecture critic, Rowan Moore.
  • (6) Oscar-winning director Michel Hazanavicius's OSS 117 films, Mike Myers's Austin Powers movies and Rowan Atkinson's pair of Johnny English efforts are some of the more recent entries.
  • (7) The result is the £19m, 115-metre, ArcelorMittal Orbit by Anish Kapoor, "a loop of string arrested in mid-fall", in the words of our architecture critic Rowan Moore.
  • (8) US federal judge David Bunning, who remanded Davis to US marshals during a high-profile hearing last week, ordered the Rowan County clerk released from jail on the condition she doesn’t interfere with efforts by her deputies to issue marriage licenses.
  • (9) Read more Speaking about the bill before it was voted on Rowan Williams, the former archbishop of Canterbury, and chair of Christian Aid argued in The Guardian that the the UK had to take a lead in protecting unaccompanied minors in Europe .
  • (10) The Rowan Learning Trust, a small academy trust that grew out of a single school in Wigan, was brought in to turn the school’s fortunes around.
  • (11) As the debate reached its conclusion, Stockwood, dressed grandly in a purple cassock and pompously fondling his crucifix in a way that was devastatingly lampooned by Rowan Atkinson a week later on a Not the Nine O'Clock News sketch, delivered his parting shot of, "You'll get your 30 pieces of silver."
  • (12) How she does it I have no idea.” Karen Kay, events fundraiser at the Rowans hospice, said: “Doris is an amazing lady and a huge inspiration.
  • (13) BBC sports editor Dan Rowan tweeted: Dan Roan (@danroan) Action of US sponsors also raises issue of whether broadcasters (who bring more £ into FIFA than corporates) should make a stand too... October 3, 2015
  • (14) In 2008, he stirred controversy when he accused the then Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, of being "mistaken and naive" for saying that some aspects of sharia law in Britain were unavoidable.
  • (15) The eventwill include speeches from celebrities, the former archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams and Bill Gates, as well as a flower installation designed to represent the lives that could be saved if funding for nutrition was improved.
  • (16) Welby's intervention suggests he will not be discouraged from speaking out despite criticism of his predecessor, Rowan Williams, who was accused of meddling in politics .
  • (17) The Nature's Calendar project invites people across the country to log their first sightings of autumnal tints on ash, beech, field maple, horse chestnut, oak, rowan, silver birch and sycamore trees.
  • (18) That goal has been achieved.” The ACLU is relying on the representations of Kentucky’s attorney general and Rowan County attorneys that marriage licenses issued henceforth are legal, Sharp said.
  • (19) Not long after, Carmen and Shannon Wampler-Collins arrived at the Rowan County clerk’s office to obtain a marriage license around 10.45am – but their efforts did not succeed without a hiccup.
  • (20) Rowan Williams was preaching in the Danish capital as crucial UN climate change talks entered their second and final week.

Shrub


Definition:

  • (n.) A liquor composed of vegetable acid, especially lemon juice, and sugar, with spirit to preserve it.
  • (n.) A woody plant of less size than a tree, and usually with several stems from the same root.
  • (v. t.) To lop; to prune.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Close to the smelters tree species accumulated more foliar fluoride than shrub species, which in turn accumulated more foliar fluoride than herb species.
  • (2) Across this relatively peaceful corner of the Horn of Africa, where black-headed sheep scamper among the thorn bushes, dainty gerenuk balance on their hind legs to nibble from hardy shrubs, and skinny camels wearing rough-hewn bells lumber over rocky slopes, people long accustomed to a harsh environment find they cannot cope after years of below-average rainfall.
  • (3) I like the challenges that come with those that thrive in such adverse conditions, and there are plenty: woodland species that make the most of what little sunlight hits the leaf litter; ferns that like dripping cave mouths and cliff faces cast in gloom; and small shrubs that eke out a living under bigger things, such as butcher’s broom ( Ruscus aculeatus ) and fragrant sweet box ( sarcoccoca ).
  • (4) This study investigated the effect of prolonged ingestion of Leucaena leucocephala, a leguminous shrub with a potential as a source of animal feed in Southern Taiwan, by heifers on serum thyroid hormone levels.
  • (5) The group, which entered through a fence around the Lincolnshire at 8am and included a Catholic priest and an Anglican priest, managed to set up banners and plant a "peace garden" consisting of a number of shrubs before they were arrested.
  • (6) It is concluded that these goats have a feeding habit similar to that of cattle rather than resting their forelimbs on the shrubs while nibbling the leaves as recorded in Asian goats.
  • (7) Glia shrubs in the cerebellar cortex appeared to be formed along the apical dendrite of Purkinje cells.
  • (8) The ACMD report described it as a herbal product made up of the leaves and shoots of the shrub Catha edulis, which releases a mild stimulant after being chewed for about an hour and three quarters.
  • (9) About half of the species eaten came from the dense herb and shrub layers.
  • (10) But over in the hospital, beyond the fences and shrubs, there is movement.
  • (11) According to the Garden Bridge trust, the new crossing would feature not only shrubs, trees, plants, benches and even "intimate walkways", but would also serve as a direct link between the South Bank and Covent Garden and Soho.
  • (12) Away from the city, green gives way to bush, then desert pockmarked with shrubs.
  • (13) The most favourable biotope for the circulation of Ixodes ticks, which are the principal vectors of the virus, is provided by the margins of these natural forests and their supplementary shrub communities.
  • (14) The following risk factors were assessed: black fly bites, presence of rodents at home, exposure to cereal dust, exposure to fumes or dust released by tree and shrub removal, and exposure to insecticides.
  • (15) I'm in St Ives in Cornwall, strolling around the Barbara Hepworth Sculpture Garden, a thickly growing, almost tropical space where tree, plant, shrub and sculpture live in perfect harmony.
  • (16) There is a widespread practice among people living in Eastern Africa and Southern Arabia of chewing the leaves of the Khat shrub so as to produce pharmacological effects that are practically indistinguishable from those produced by amphetamine (AMPH).
  • (17) Herbicides are a heterogeneous class of chemicals used in agriculture, forestry, and urban settings to kill weeds, shrubs, and broad-leaved trees.
  • (18) Shrubs and trees, especially of the Rosaceae (primarily species of Prunus), were particularly important as nectar sources and bloomed concurrently with the appearance of nulliparous females.
  • (19) Cathinone is an active ingredient in the leaves of the Khat shrub.
  • (20) Therefore, during the spring and fall, activities that take place in high-shrub areas or in the woods (e.g., landscaping, trail or brush clearing) involve a high risk of exposure to adult ticks infected with Lyme disease.