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Trees that gave up on greatness and chose to be furniture instead.
means Woody plants shorter than trees, with several stems branching from near the ground rather than one trunk.
from From Old English scrybb, meaning a brushwood thicket, kin to the rough, scrubby land nobody bothered to farm.
No single trunkMultiple woody stems define them, not their height.
Drinkable cousinShrub is also a tangy vinegar fruit syrup.
Ni demandMonty Python made shrubbery eternally absurd.