is a specific kind of: ligneous plant, woody plant.

is a broader term that covers: Catha edulis | ephedra, joint fir | alpine totara, Podocarpus nivalis | Chilean rimu, Lepidothamnus fonkii | Dacridium laxifolius, Lepidothamnus laxifolius, mountain rimu | Microstrobos niphophilus, Tasman dwarf pine | barberry | blue cohosh, blueberry root, Caulophyllum thalictrioides, Caulophyllum thalictroides, papoose root, papooseroot, squaw root, squawroot | holly-leaves barberry, hollygrape, Mahonia aquifolium, mountain grape, Oregon grape, Oregon holly grape | Mahonia nervosa, Oregon grape | allspice | Chimonanthus praecox, Japan allspice, Japanese allspice, winter sweet | American spicebush, Benjamin bush, Benzoin odoriferum, Lindera benzoin, spice bush, spicebush | pepper shrub, Pseudowintera colorata, Wintera colorata | Myrica gale, Scotch gale, sweet gale | wax myrtle | Comptonia asplenifolia, Comptonia peregrina, sweet fern | corkwood, corkwood tree, Leitneria floridana | mimosa | Anadenanthera colubrina, Piptadenia macrocarpa | calliandra | Lysiloma sabicu, sabicu | black bead, cat's-claw, catclaw, Pithecellobium unguis-cati | mesquit, mesquite | Acocanthera oblongifolia, Acocanthera spectabilis, poison arrow plant, winter sweet | Acocanthera oppositifolia, Acocanthera venenata, bushman's poison, ordeal tree | Adenium multiflorum, Adenium obesum, desert rose, impala lily, kudu lily, mock azalia | carissa | frangipani, frangipanni | rauvolfia, rauwolfia | strophanthus | Adam's apple, coffee rose, crape jasmine, crepe gardenia, crepe jasmine, East Indian rosebay, Nero's crown, pinwheel flower, Tabernaemontana divaricate | Thevetia neriifolia, Thevetia peruviana, yellow oleander | American angelica tree, Aralia spinosa, devil's walking stick, Hercules'-club | Aralia elata, Japanese angelica tree | Aralia stipulata, Chinese angelica, Chinese angelica tree | Brassaia actinophylla, Schefflera actinophylla, umbrella tree | Batis maritima, saltwort | saltbush | Bassia scoparia, belvedere, burning bush, fire-bush, fire bush, Kochia scoparia, summer cypress | Cycloloma atriplicifolium, tumbleweed, winged pigweed | barilla, glasswort, kali, kelpwort, Salsola kali, Salsola soda, saltwort | Russian cactus, Russian thistle, Russian tumbleweed, Salsola kali tenuifolia, tumbleweed | black greasewood, greasewood, Sarcobatus vermiculatus | caper | Biscutalla laevigata, buckler mustard | bush poppy, tree poppy | Argyroxiphium sandwicense, silversword | artemisia | Baccharis halimifolia, consumption weed, cotton-seed tree, groundsel bush, groundsel tree | Baccharis viminea, mule fat | Baccharis pilularis, chaparral broom, coyote brush, coyote bush, kidney wort | goldenbush | Hazardia cana, hoary golden bush | mutisia | daisy-bush, daisy bush, daisybush | othonna | lavender cotton, Santolina chamaecyparissus | Cineraria maritima, dusty miller, Senecio cineraria | milk thistle, sow thistle | Ardisia crenata, coralberry, spiceberry | Ardisia escallonoides, Ardisia paniculata, marlberry | leadwort, Plumbago europaea | bracelet wood, Jacquinia armillaris | barbasco, Jacquinia keyensis, joewood | mallow | cotton, cotton plant | Lavatera arborea, tree mallow, velvet-leaf, velvetleaf | pavonia | bush hibiscus, Hibiscus farragei, Radyera farragei | Aristotelia racemosa, Aristotelia serrata, makomako, New Zealand wine berry, wineberry | dombeya | California beauty, flannel bush, flannelbush | screw tree | Hermannia verticillata, honey bell, honeybells, Mahernia verticillata | Grewia asiatica, phalsa | African hemp, Sparmannia africana | protea | banksia | smoke bush | Chilean firebush, Chilean flameflower, Embothrium coccineum | Chile hazel, Chile nut, Chilean hazelnut, Chilean nut, Guevina avellana, Guevina heterophylla | grevillea | cushion flower, Hakea laurina, pincushion hakea | Hakea leucoptera, needle-wood, needle wood, needlewood | Hakea lissosperma, needle-bush, needle bush, needlebush | honey-flower, honeyflower, Lambertia formosa, mountain devil | lomatia | geebung | Telopea Oreades, waratah | Telopea speciosissima, waratah | native pear, woody pear, Xylomelum pyriforme | heath | andromeda | arbutus | bearberry | manzanita | bryanthus | Chamaedaphne calyculata, leatherleaf | Epigaea repens, mayflower, trailing arbutus | Gaultheria shallon, salal, shallon | huckleberry | kalmia | crystal tea, Labrador tea, Ledum groenlandicum | glandular Labrador tea, trapper's tea | Ledum palustre, marsh tea, wild rosemary | Leiophyllum buxifolium, sand myrtle | leucothoe | dog hobble, dog laurel, Leucothoe editorum, Leucothoe fontanesiana, switch-ivy | Leucothoe racemosa, sweet bells | alpine azalea, Loiseleuria procumbens, mountain azalea | Lyonia mariana, stagger bush, staggerbush | he-huckleberry, Lyonia ligustrina, male berry, maleberry, privet andromeda | fetter bush, fetterbush, Lyonia lucida, shiny lyonia | false azalea, fool's huckleberry, Menziesia ferruginea | Menziesia pilosa, minnie bush, minniebush | andromeda, Japanese andromeda, lily-of-the-valley tree, Pieris japonica | fetterbush, mountain andromeda, mountain fetterbush, Pieris floribunda | rhododendron | cranberry | blueberry, blueberry bush | Clethra alnifolia, pepper bush, summer sweet, sweet pepperbush, white alder | pixie, pixy, Pyxidanthera barbulata, pyxie | Australian heath | Astroloma humifusum, cranberry heath, ground-berry, groundberry, native cranberry, Styphelia humifusum | pink fivecorner, Styphelia triflora | Chrysolepis sempervirens, dwarf golden chinkapin | huckleberry oak, Quercus vaccinifolia | forestiera | forsythia | jasmine | privet | mock privet | lilac | witch hazel, witch hazel plant, wych hazel, wych hazel plant | flowering hazel, winter hazel | fothergilla, witch alder | Combretum bracteosum, hiccough nut, hiccup nut | oleaster | crape myrtle, crepe flower, crepe myrtle, Lagerstroemia indica | feijoa, feijoa bush | fuchsia | daphne | Dirca palustris, leatherwood, moose-wood, moosewood, ropebark, wicopy | Indian rhododendron, Melastoma malabathricum | Medinilla magnifica | guinea flower, guinea gold vine | Canella-alba, Canella winterana, white cinnamon tree, wild cinnamon | rock rose, rockrose | helianthemum, sun rose, sunrose | batoko palm, Flacourtia indica, governor's plum, governor plum, Madagascar plum, ramontchi | Dovyalis caffra, kei apple, kei apple bush | Kiggelaria africana, wild peach | xylosma, Xylosma congestum | candlewood | bird's-eye bush, Ochna serrulata | tamarisk | false tamarisk, German tamarisk, Myricaria germanica | cannabis, hemp | butcher's broom, Ruscus aculeatus | Cordyline terminalis, ti | yucca | buddleia, butterfly bush | Caesalpinia decapetala, Caesalpinia sepiaria, Mysore thorn | Bauhinia monandra, butterfly flower | paloverde | horsebean, Jerusalem thorn, Parkinsonia aculeata | Cytisus ramentaceus, Dalmatian laburnum, Petteria ramentacea | senna | amorpha | Anagyris foetida, bean trefoil, stinking bean trefoil | Anthyllis barba-jovis, Jupiter's beard, silver-bush, silverbush | Aspalathus cedcarbergensis, Aspalathus linearis, rooibos | cajan pea, Cajanus cajan, catjang pea, dahl, dhal, pigeon-pea plant, pigeon pea, red gram | caragana, pea tree | California redbud, Cercis occidentalis, western redbud | Chamaecytisus palmensis, Cytesis proliferus, tagasaste | flame pea | clianthus, glory pea | Codariocalyx motorius, Desmodium gyrans, Desmodium motorium, semaphore plant, telegraph plant | bladder senna, Colutea arborescens | coronilla | broom | Dalea spinosa, smoke tree | bitter pea | derris | gastrolobium, poison bush, poison pea | chanal, chanar, Geoffroea decorticans | Halimodendron argenteum, Halimodendron halodendron, salt tree | hovea, purple pea | indigo, indigo plant, Indigofera tinctoria | Lupinus arboreus, tree lupine | mucuna | chaparral pea, Pickeringia montana, stingaree-bush | flat pea, Platylobium formosum | common flat pea, native holly, Playlobium obtusangulum | Genista raetam, juniper, juniper bush, raetam, Retama raetam, retem | bristly locust, moss locust, Robinia hispida, rose acacia | coral bush, flame bush, Templetonia retusa | furze, gorse, Irish gorse, Ulex europaeus, whin | swamp oak, Viminaria denudata, Viminaria juncea | rose, rosebush | Juneberry, service tree, serviceberry, shadblow, shadbush | flowering quince | cotoneaster | haw, hawthorn | Christmas berry, Christmasberry, Heteromeles arbutifolia, Photinia arbutifolia, tollon, toyon | cinquefoil, five-finger | cherry laurel, laurel cherry, Prunus laurocerasus | Prunus cuneata, Prunus pumila, Prunus pumilla susquehanae, Prunus susquehanae, sand cherry | blackthorn, Prunus spinosa, sloe | fire thorn, firethorn, pyracanth, Pyracantha | spiraea, spirea | blolly, Chiococca alba, West Indian snowberry | gardenia | hamelia | bitter-bark, fever tree, Georgia bark, Pinckneya pubens | negro peach, Sarcocephalus esculentus, Sarcocephalus latifolius | abelia | bush honeysuckle, Diervilla lonicera | bush honeysuckle, Diervilla sessilifolia | beauty bush, Kolkwitzia amabilis | Himalaya honeysuckle, Leycesteria formosa | honeysuckle | coralberry, Indian currant, Symphoricarpos orbiculatus | elder, elderberry bush | American cranberry bush, cranberry bush, cranberry tree, highbush cranberry, Viburnum trilobum | twist wood, twistwood, Viburnum lantana, wayfaring tree | crampbark, cranberry tree, European cranberry bush, European cranberrybush, guelder rose, Viburnum opulus | arrow wood, southern arrow wood, Viburnum dentatum | arrow wood, Viburnum recognitum | black haw, Viburnum prunifolium | weigela, Weigela florida | coca, coca plant, Erythroxylon coca | Erythroxylon truxiuense | bean caper, Syrian bean caper, Zygophyllum fabago | coville, creosote bush, hediondilla, Larrea tridentata | box, boxwood | staff tree | spindle tree, spindleberry, spindleberry tree | burning bush, Euonymus atropurpureus, wahoo | Euonymus americanus, strawberry bush, wahoo | cyrilla, Cyrilla racemiflora, leatherwood, white titi | crowberry | Chinese holly, Ilex cornuta | smoke bush, smoke tree | laurel sumac, Malosma laurina, Rhus laurina | lentisk, mastic, mastic tree, Pistacia lentiscus | shumac, sumac, sumach | buckthorn | styrax | hydrangea | philadelphus | climbing hydrangea, Schizophragma hydrangeoides | bridal-wreath, bridal wreath, Francoa ramosa | currant, currant bush | gooseberry, gooseberry bush, Ribes grossularia, Ribes uva-crispa | caricature plant, Graptophyllum pictum | Chilopsis linearis, desert willow | columnea | Eriodictyon californicum, yerba santa | Apalachicola rosemary, Conradina glabra | lavender | Lepechinia calycina, pitcher sage, Sphacele calycina | pachouli, patchouli, patchouly, Pogostemon cablin | red shrubby penstemon, redwood penstemon | naranjilla, Solanum quitoense | Brazilian potato tree, potato tree, Solanum macranthum, Solanum wrightii | Brunfelsia americana, lady-of-the-night | angel's trumpet, Brugmansia arborea, Datura arborea, maikoa | angel's trumpet, Brugmansia suaveolens, Datura suaveolens | Brugmansia sanguinea, Datura sanguinea, red angel's trumpet | capsicum, capsicum pepper plant, pepper | Cestrum diurnum, day jessamine | Cestrum nocturnum, night jasmine, night jessamine | tamarillo, tree tomato | thorn apple | Fabiana imbricata, pichi | boxthorn, matrimony vine | Christmas berry, Christmasberry, Lycium carolinianum | chalice vine, cupflower, Solandra guttata, trumpet flower | fire-bush, fire bush, marmalade bush, Streptosolen jamesonii | spurge | Acalypha virginica, three-seeded mercury | croton, Croton tiglium | Codiaeum variegatum, croton | castor-oil plant, castor bean plant, palma christ, palma christi, Ricinus communis | casava, cassava | slipper plant, slipper spurge | camelia, camellia | Camellia sinensis, tea | Eryngium maritimum, sea eryngium, sea holly, sea holm | Griselinia lucida, puka | Griselinia littoralis, kapuka | undershrub | burning bush | shrublet | subshrub, suffrutex | flowering shrub | buckthorn | Christ's-thorn, Jerusalem thorn, jujube, jujube bush, Ziziphus jujuba | lotus tree, Ziziphus lotus | Christ's-thorn, Jerusalem thorn, Paliurus spina-christi | stephanotis ... show more.

is a member of: shrubbery.

derivation: bushy | fruticose, fruticulose, shrubby.