SCRUBBY

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


Etymology

Adjective

scrubby (comparative scrubbier, superlative scrubbiest)

Covered with or consisting of scrub.

Inferior in size or quality.

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



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