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Meanings of
scrubby
in anglès
Inferior in size or quality.
stunted
scrawny
Related terms
inferior
Sparsely covered with stunted trees or vegetation and underbrush.
scrabbly
Related terms
wooded
Sinònims
Examples for "
scrabbly
"
scrabbly
Examples for "
scrabbly
"
1
There was no trail, just steep
scrabbly
rock.
2
A hideous screech lifted the hair on her neck, and something sprinted along the
scrabbly
rock, its crashing footfalls lingering in the stillness.
Usage of
scrubby
in anglès
1
To the east another flat-topped range; country between also
scrubby
;
apparently open.
2
The country in general
scrubby
,
with occasional reaches of open forest land.
3
They had come to an area of
scrubby
brush on stilt roots.
4
The country was thinly wooded in some places and
scrubby
at others.
5
At four miles got to the rise, which is a
scrubby
sand-hill.
6
Our path today came over six miles of unavailable barren
scrubby
ridges.
7
The valley I now traversed became somewhat
scrubby
with mallee and triodia.
8
We dismounted and tethered him to a
scrubby
pine, continuing on foot.
9
The first mile of our journey was over low
scrubby
ironstone hills.
10
He gazed across the shimmering desert to a ridge of
scrubby
hills.
11
The rich forests shrink slowly into thin tracts of
scrubby
,
poverty-stricken vegetation.
12
A forest of pale,
scrubby
ferns ran down almost to the beach.
13
Decency is driven to the distant hills, crowned with their
scrubby
oaks.
14
She could barely see the
scrubby
trail that wound into the desert.
15
He raised the window shade and squinted at the sun-baked
scrubby
terrain.
16
The
scrubby
gorse bushes were shivering but there was almost no wind.
Other examples for "scrubby"
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scrubby
Adjective
Frequent collocations
scrubby bushes
scrubby grass
scrubby trees
scrubby country
scrubby beard
More collocations
Scrubby
through the time
Scrubby
across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Common