scrubby

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Covered with or consisting of scrub
Inferior in size or quality
{a} mean, sorry, dirty, worthless, vile
{s} wretched, shabby, ragged; insignificant, inferior; dwarf, undersized; covered with small bushes or trees
sparsely covered with stunted trees or vegetation and underbrush; "open scrubby woods"
Of the nature of scrub; small and mean; stunted in growth; as, a scrubby cur
Scrubby land is rough and dry and covered with scrub. the hot, scrubby hills of western Eritrea
inferior in size or quality; "scrawny cattle"; "scrubby cut-over pine"; "old stunted thorn trees"
scrubby

    Hyphenation

    scrub·by

    Turkish pronunciation

    skrʌbi

    Pronunciation

    /ˈskrəbē/ /ˈskrʌbiː/

    Etymology

    [ 'skr&-bE ] (adjective.) 1591. 1scrub.
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