What is "scrubland"

Usage examples of "scrubland".

They soon reached a drier, hotter area, free of trees and scrubland, brimful of gazelles and zebra and impala and wildebeest.

He rode out alone on the desert and sat the horse and he and the horse and the dog looked out across the rolling scrubland and the barren peppercorn hills and the mountains and the flat brush country and running plain beyond where four hundred miles to the east were the wife and child that he would not see again.

To the north, the plateau dead-ends in some nasty, impassable scrubland, and to the south it opens up on more farming territory.

But off to the left, it still looks like the Mediterranean, and eventually it gives way to Devil's Tower type outcroppings rising up out of stony scrubland, and then after that it is just rocks and sand, or sand without the rocks.

His daughter found him, head lolling, oozing mucus from mouth and nose, eyes fat and pale and as alert as poached eggs, in the scrubland by a rusting gas tower in Abrogate Green.

The streets of Bonetown edged nervously into the scrubland with exploratory little fringes of brick that petered quickly out.

The streets of Bonetown edged nervously into the scrubland with exploratory lit­tle fringes of brick that petered quickly out.

But soon her thoughts were on the path as they crossed narrow,' miraculous meadows, then scrublands where simlas grazed, and beyond to a steepening pass wedged between two hills.

These must be the scrublands south of the Rift, where some city sites were left to be torn down by wave and wind alone.

But soon her thoughts were on the path as they crossed narrow,’ miraculous meadows, then scrublands where simlas grazed, and beyond to a steepening pass wedged between two hills.

Then quietly they dismounted and unslung their clothes from about their necks and dressed and led the horses up out of the willow breaks and gravel benches and out upon the plain where they mounted and rode south onto the dry scrublands of Coahuila.

Since Sharpstown at this point was nothing but maps, signs, bunting, Englishy thatchy tweedy-sounding street names and thousands of acres of wind-swept boondocker gumbo scrubland, Astronauts Row wouldn't be a bad way to start filling in the spaces.

An extra-wide two-lane asphalt road had been laid down across the scrubland, and more than a dozen tractor-trailers used it every day to bring in more tons of construction material and equipment.

An extra wide two-lane asphalt road had been laid down across the scrubland, and more than a dozen tractor-trailers used it every day to bring in more tons of construction material and equipment.

There were no fields, or meadows, or scrubland, just a slick piss-brown coating, undulating and gurgling as it crept inexorably along.