As of 2019, Starbucks opens a new store every 15 hours in China. The coffee chain has grown by 700% over the past decade.
scrawny, scrubby, stunted
(adjective) inferior in size or quality; “scrawny cattle”; “scrubby cut-over pine”; “old stunted thorn trees”
scrabbly, scrubby
(adjective) sparsely covered with stunted trees or vegetation and underbrush; “open scrubby woods”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
scrubbiest
superlative form of scrubby: most scrubby
Source: Wiktionary
Scrub"by, a. [Compar. Scrubbier; superl. Scrubbiest.]
Definition: Of the nature of scrub; small and mean; stunted in growth; as, a scrubby cur. "Dense, scrubby woods." Duke of Argull.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
3 July 2025
(noun) the faculty through which the external world is apprehended; “in the dark he had to depend on touch and on his senses of smell and hearing”
As of 2019, Starbucks opens a new store every 15 hours in China. The coffee chain has grown by 700% over the past decade.