scrub
29
6.2
- noun
- /skrʌb/
:
matorral
- After the fire, the area was covered in scrub, with only low thickets remaining.
- scrub habitat
- dry scrub
- desert scrub
And he walked them out onto the scrub encroached land.
- And he walked them out onto the scrub encroached land.
Examples
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And he walked them out onto the scrub encroached land.
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With all that scrub and grass around there's bound to be water.
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Now the fields were overgrown with scrub pine and tall yellow grass.
Fiction book (1990) -
Both are good places to encounter scrub oak barrens, the characteristic habitat of the region's highest elevations.
Academic text (2011) -
The rocks were virtually treeless, but scrub and grasses grew out of every crack and crevice.
Fiction book (1992) -
We hiked through the scrub where small bushes and stunted trees formed a thick barrier.
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The scrub was teeming with wildlife, providing a perfect habitat for various birds.
Synonyms
180
3.7
Wild land with many small trees and thick plants far from towns
61
2.2
A thick group of small trees and bushes
11
5.6
Small plants, bushes, and young trees that grow under tall trees in a forest
2
9.5
A dense area of low trees and bushes in dry places like California
1
6.6
An area of land covered with short bushes and grasses that is hard to farm
1
4.7
Low bushes or plants that grow close to the ground in dry areas
An area covered mostly with low bushes and small woody plants
Compounds
- Specialized
2
3.9
A hospital worker who helps the surgeon during surgery by keeping things sterile and handing instruments
- US
1
8.2
A small, bushy pine tree with twisted branches and short needles in pairs that grows in the eastern United States
- Australian
A large ground bird that builds a warm mound of rotting plants to hatch its eggs
- Australian
A tree or tall shrub that has shiny leaves, white fragrant flowers, and hard red wood in Australia
A small tough palm that grows in clumps with spiny leaves in the southern United States
- Specialized
A disease people get when tiny animals called mites bite them that gives fever and a rash
- Specialized
A small evergreen shrub or tree that grows in sandy coastal areas and forms dense thickets
How Dense
Surface Forms
Etymology
Scrub as the name for low bushes comes from an old word for small, rough plants, much like the word shrub. Think of thin, stunted bushes that make walking hard, and you will remember why 'scrub' means that kind of rough vegetation.