scrubby
5
5.3
- adjective
- /ˈskrʌbi/
:
arbustivo
- The scrubby landscape was dotted with stunted bushes and sparse grass.
- scrubby bush
Examples
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Now, in place of the former giants, scrubby Beach pine and other imported species have taken hold.
Blog text (23) -
All he saw was dirt, rocks, and some scrubby plants.
Fiction book (1991) -
It's out on some scrubby island in the East River or Long Island Sound.
Fiction book (1995) -
We declined her offer and walked down the path into the dry, scrubby woods.
Fiction book (1991) -
The area today is primarily scrubby, ill-kept fields.
Academic text (2011) -
Pauline looks about, but can see nothing but a scrubby hillside.
Fiction book (1994) -
You couldn't see the buildings, only the scrubby slope and the high battlement of trees.
Academic text (1999) -
The disappearance of the shore, its weeds and ferns and scrubby trees, seemed more terrible than anything.
Fiction book (2001) -
There were no cacti here, only low scrubby bushes and skeletal ocotillo not yet in bloom.
Fiction book (2002) -
Nineteenth-century European travelers described the scorching, scrubby bush region of Tsavo as hostile and practically uninhabited.
Academic text (2005)
Synonyms
3
4.4
Smaller than usual and not fully grown because of not enough food or bad conditions
1
3.8
Covered with many low bushes or thick plants
1
3.8
Having many low bushy plants with woody stems
Land that is rough and thinly covered with short bushes and small plants
Antonyms
How Bushy
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Scrubby comes from the common word scrub, which means 'small, rough bushes'. So scrubby describes land or plants that are 'covered with low, thin bushes' or that look small and not very healthy.