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[ UK /skɹˈʌbi/ ]
[ US /ˈskɹəbi/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. inferior in size or quality
    old stunted thorn trees
    scrubby cut-over pine
    scrawny cattle
  2. sparsely covered with stunted trees or vegetation and underbrush
    open scrubby woods

How To Use scrubby In A Sentence

  • The Taverham visitor spent much time hunting for insects and larvae among fallen leaves in scrubby woodland.
  • TV programmes and books try to persuade us that we, whoever we are, can make over scrubby lawns, and construct a little Blenheim in a rectangle of twenty by thirty feet.
  • Sure, they had a certain scrubby appeal, but the guys on Jackass were basically dorks. Mr Jackass : GQ Feature
  • There also grew, in the sandy bed of this river, a new white-flowered MELALEUCA, resembling M. ERICIFOLIA, but with long mucronate leaves90; and, in the scrubby bank the Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia
  • Communities range from xeric habitats such as scrub and scrubby flatwoods to hydric habitats such as floodplain forest and blackwater stream.
  • The Old Course wasn't built, it simply evolved, a combination of scrubby seaside turf, wispy grasses, prickly gorse and rolling dunes.
  • The Marais Communal of Curzon lies in the lap of low scrubby hills, like a green sea of stillness.
  • Here, in the scrubby land mantled in the after glow of a soft sunset, springbok leapt and Cape mountain zebra grazed even as herds of black wildebeest stared at us intently and then galloped away.
  • They were a scrubby and desolate range from which bears and mountain lions streamed down to ogle and sometimes attack the inhabitants of houses gouged from the hills. Denise Hamilton discusses Sugar Skull
  • Dawn to dusk, each hour, Patricio would guide twenty pilgrims to the cave while the others queued up, seeking shade under every leafless cactus and scrubby tree near the chain. The Calling
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