scrubby Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. adjective satellite sparsely covered with stunted trees or vegetation and underbrush
    scrabbly.
    • open scrubby woods
  2. adjective satellite inferior in size or quality
    stunted; scrawny.
    • scrawny cattle
    • scrubby cut-over pine
    • old stunted thorn trees

WordNet

Scrub"by adjective
Wordforms
comparative Scrubbier ; superlative Scrubbiest
Definitions
  1. Of the nature of scrub; small and mean; stunted in growth; as, a scrubby cur. "Dense, scrubby woods." Duke of Argull.

Webster 1913