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
a. (en-superlative of: scrubby)
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, scrubbier]
See scrubby
Usage examples of "scrubbiest".
The best you could do was get down in a valley, try and find the scrubbiest, lowest stand of trees, and get under them.
The very scrubbiest sackcloth made, and the grittiest ashes on the heap .
Bordman found himself straining his eyes for the merest, scrubbiest of bushes and for however stunted and isolated a wisp of grass.