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Stunted, as trees
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scrubby
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Word definitions for scrubby in dictionaries
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ scrubby terrain EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ A tiny yard full of scrubby tufts of grass trying to look green, and some one's garage wall at the end. ▪ Diving into woods with old limestone spoil heaps and scrubby clearings ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. sparsely covered with stunted trees or vegetation and underbrush; "open scrubby woods" [syn: scrabbly ] inferior in size or quality; "scrawny cattle"; "scrubby cut-over pine"; "old stunted thorn trees" [syn: scrawny , stunted ] [also: scrubbiest , ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"stunted, inferior, shabby," 1590s; see scrub (n.) + -y (2). Meaning "covered with scrub" is from 1670s. Related: Scrubbiness .
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Scrubby \Scrub"by\ (skr[u^]b"b[y^]), a. [Compar. Scrubbier (skr[u^]b"b[i^]*[~e]r); superl. Scrubbiest .] Of the nature of scrub; small and mean; stunted in growth; as, a scrubby cur. ``Dense, scrubby woods.'' --Duke of Argyll.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
1 Covered with or consisting of scru 2 Inferior in size or quality.
Usage examples of scrubby.
She was in the last dip before home, Wenscote almost in sight, when four men rode out of some scrubby trees and trapped her startled groom between horses and pistols.
Well, our farm was on a good little flat, with a big mountain in front, and a scrubby, rangy country at the back for miles.
She could see the outlines of tall, scrubby poplar along one side of the dirt road, and beyond them, open land that might have been grain fields or pasture or simply desert.
She looked over his shoulder into heavy brush, back across the road to a shelving bank and scrubby, dry trees.
In many of the yards and on the tops of many buildings, low walls enclosed flat desert-gardens, with tiny patches of scrubby grass, a few low cactuses and undulating sand.
Wenscote almost in sight, when four men rode out of some scrubby trees and trapped her startled groom between horses and pistols.
The spotlight beam flickered palely over the low scrubby bushes and outlined the flat spiky plates of the prickly pears, but in the shifting uneven shadows that they threw, I reckoned I must be just another clump.
Vorneen did what he could to steer himself away from the houses, toward the flat scrubby plateau just beyond.
He cut two slim poles from a scrawny tree, pruned away the branches, and started to hack at the stems of scrubby gray-green plants growing low to the ground.
Casually, Charley sauntered down to the end of the street of square two-story adobe buildings on which he lived, looked in every direction, ducked into the old kiva to pick up the tortillas and the canteen, and ran off into the scrubby underbrush that bordered the pueblo.
Three of the Persian scouts appeared briefly in a break in the scrubby trees thaj clogged the downstream end of the ravine.
Thousands of men had hewn a sprawling encampment out of the poor soil and scrubby trees.
The disk caromed off the rocks on the hillside and crashed into a scrubby tree.
A copse of trees marked the crown of the hill, and the brightly colored tents of her servants and commanders were settled among the junipers and scrubby pines.
The ground in between was littered with rocks, small boulders, scrubby grass, and low gray bushes.