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Meanings of dense scrub in English

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Usage of dense scrub in English
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Sandhills abut right on to them, and dense scrub surrounds their foot.
Spinifex and Sand / A Narrative of Five Years' Pioneering and Ex...
2
It is a low sandy rise, covered with a dense scrub.
Explorations in Australia / The Journals of John McDouall Stuart...
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To the north is the dense scrub, thus forming a complete stop to further progress.
Explorations in Australia / The Journals of John McDouall Stuart...
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The whole slope, for half a mile, was covered with a dense scrub of Lantana bushes.
Concerning Animals and Other Matters
5
The dense scrub lights up like a Christmas tree with the glowing bodies of dancing fireflies.
The Irish Times
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The country on either bank of the Atbara is covered with dense scrub, impassable for civilised troops.
The River War: An Account of the Reconquest of the Sudan
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Once through the dense scrub surrounding the lake, and our old friends sand and spinifex lay before us.
Spinifex and Sand / A Narrative of Five Years' Pioneering and Ex...
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They were approaching a narrow fold in the land, one filled with small trees and dense scrub bushes.
The evolutionary void
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We pulled into a parking lot surrounded by a forest of pine, tall red gums, and dense scrub.
G'day to die: a passport to peril mystery
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A search team spent last week clearing an area of dense scrub and gorse near Charleston, south of Westport.
Radio NZ
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On leaving this camp the caravan travelled through dense scrub, with occasional hills and patches of open country intervening.
The Explorers of Australia and their Life-work
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From a high sand ridge I could see a long way to the north-east, seemingly all a dense scrub.
Explorations in Australia / The Journals of John McDouall Stuart...
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When they came to the higher banks covered with dense scrub, Angers paused, and told Marie where they were.
Cumner's Son and Other South Sea Folk — Volume 04
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The last sixteen miles were through very dense scrub; the former part through scrub with good grassy plains at intervals.
Explorations in Australia / The Journals of John McDouall Stuart...
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Behind us on the west was a dense scrub; not the most pleasant of neighbours when savage natives were about.
Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia, Volume...
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Despite living on the edge of an urban area, the Cambodian tailorbird escaped detection due to its dense scrub habitat.
The Guardian
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