The Collaborative International Dictionary
Scrub \Scrub\ (skr[u^]b), n.
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One who labors hard and lives meanly; a mean fellow. ``A sorry scrub.''
--Bunyan.We should go there in as proper a manner as possible; nor altogether like the scrubs about us.
--Goldsmith. Something small and mean.
A worn-out brush.
--Ainsworth.A thicket or jungle, often specified by the name of the prevailing plant; as, oak scrub, palmetto scrub, etc.
(Stock Breeding) One of the common live stock of a region of no particular breed or not of pure breed, esp. when inferior in size, etc. [U.S.]
Vegetation of inferior quality, though sometimes thick and impenetrable, growing in poor soil or in sand; also, brush; -- called also scrub brush. See Brush, above.
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(Forestry) A low, straggling tree of inferior quality.
Scrub bird (Zo["o]l.), an Australian passerine bird of the family Atrichornithid[ae], as Atrichia clamosa; -- called also brush bird.
Scrub oak (Bot.), the popular name of several dwarfish species of oak. The scrub oak of New England and the Middle States is Quercus ilicifolia, a scraggy shrub; that of the Southern States is a small tree ( Q. Catesb[ae]i); that of the Rocky Mountain region is Q. undulata, var. Gambelii.
Scrub robin (Zo["o]l.), an Australian singing bird of the genus Drymodes.
WordNet
n. a brush with short stiff bristles for heavy cleaning [syn: scrubbing brush, scrubber]
Wikipedia
Scrub brush or scrubbrush may refer to:
- Shrubland, an environmental habitat characterized by vegetation dominated by shrubs
- Silkworm (missile), a missile with the NATO reporting name "Scrubbrush"
- Tawashi, a Japanese traditional scrubbing brush
- Toilet brush, a scrubbing brush for cleaning toilets
- American cleaning brush of various sizes and shapes, and for various purposes
Usage examples of "scrub brush".
Within the forested canopy of the valley, the pathway broadened and then disappeared altogether as the dense scrub brush and fallen timber began to thin.
The faultless stonework of the old road, concealed as it was by a thin layer of dirt and some scrub brush, ran right up to a huge pile of red and black rocks tumbled together, a pile nearly forty cubits high.
Two miles of empty valley stretched eastward before them, the high slopes to either side cresting in sharp ridges lined with thinning stretches of trees and scrub brush.
The scrub brush that he had dragged must have been effective to delay them so long.
The rest was scrub brush, little as much as waist-high, dotted with leatherleaf and paperbark and the occasional Oak.
The rest was scrub brush, little as much as waist-high, dotted with leatherleaf and paperbark and the -occasional Oak.