SCRUBS
gown, surgical gown, scrubs
(noun) protective garment worn by surgeons during operations
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Noun
scrubs
plural of scrub
Source: Wiktionary
SCRUB
Scrub, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Scrubbed; p. pr. & vb. n. Scrubbing.]
Etym: [OE. scrobben, probably of Dutch or Scand. origin; cf. Dan.
sckrubbe, Sw. skrubba, D. schrobben, LG. schrubben.]
Definition: To rub hard; to wash with rubbing; usually, to rub with a wet
brush, or with something coarse or rough, for the purpose of cleaning
or brightening; as, to scrub a floor, a doorplate.
Scrub, v. i.
Definition: To rub anything hard, especially with a wet brush; to scour;
hence, to be diligent and penurious; as, to scrub hard for a living.
Scrub, n.
1. One who labors hard and lives meanly; a mean fellow. "A sorry
scrub." Bunyan.
We should go there in as proper a manner possible; nor altogether
like the scrubs about us. Goldsmith.
2. Something small and mean.
3. A worn-out brush. Ainsworth.
4. A thicket or jungle, often specified by the name of the prevailing
plant; as, oak scrub, palmetto scrub, etc.
5. (Stock Breeding)
Definition: One of the commen live stock of a region of no particular breed
or not of pure breed, esp. when inferior in size, etc. [U.S.] Scrub
bird (Zoöl.), an Australian passerine bird of the family
Atrichornithidæ, as Atrichia clamosa; -- called also brush bird.
– Scrub oak (Bot.), the popular name of several dwarfish species of
oak. The scrub oak of New England and the Middle States is Quercus
ilicifolia, a scraggy shrub; that of the Southern States is a small
tree (Q. Catesbæi); that of the Rocky Mountain region is Q. undulata,
var. Gambelii.
– Scrub robin (Zoöl.), an Australian singing bird of the genus
Drymodes.
Scrub, a.
Definition: Mean; dirty; contemptible; scrubby.
How solitary, how scrub, does this town lokk! Walpole.
No little scrub joint shall come on my board. Swift.
Scrub game, a game, as of ball, by unpracticed players.
– Scrub race, a race between scrubs, or between untrained animals
or contestants.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition