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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (2)

1. sparsely covered with stunted trees or vegetation and underbrush;
- Example: "open scrubby woods"
[syn: scrabbly, scrubby]

2. inferior in size or quality;
- Example: "scrawny cattle"
- Example: "scrubby cut-over pine"
- Example: "old stunted thorn trees"
[syn: scrawny, scrubby, stunted]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Scrubby \Scrub"by\ (skr[u^]b"b[y^]), a. [Compar. Scrubbier (skr[u^]b"b[i^]*[~e]r); superl. Scrubbiest.] Of the nature of scrub; small and mean; stunted in growth; as, a scrubby cur. "Dense, scrubby woods." --Duke of Argyll. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

scrubby adj 1: sparsely covered with stunted trees or vegetation and underbrush; "open scrubby woods" [syn: scrabbly, scrubby] 2: inferior in size or quality; "scrawny cattle"; "scrubby cut- over pine"; "old stunted thorn trees" [syn: scrawny, scrubby, stunted]