scrub : Idioms & Phrases

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scrub beefwood

  • noun tree or tall shrub with shiny leaves and umbels of fragrant creamy-white flowers; yields hard heavy reddish wood
    beefwood; Stenocarpus salignus.
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Scrub bird

  • noun small fast-running Australian bird resembling a wren and frequenting brush or scrub
    scrubbird; scrub bird.
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  • (Zoöl.), an Australian passerine bird of the family Atrichornithidæ, as Atrichia clamosa; called also brush bird.
Webster 1913

scrub brush

  • noun a brush with short stiff bristles for heavy cleaning
    scrubber; scrub brush.
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scrub fowl

  • noun large-footed short-winged birds of Australasia; build mounds of decaying vegetation to incubate eggs
    mound bird; mound-bird; megapode; mound builder.
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Scrub game

  • a game, as of ball, by unpracticed players.
Webster 1913

scrub nurse

  • noun a nurse who helps a surgeon prepare for surgery
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Scrub oak

  • noun any of various chiefly American small shrubby oaks often a dominant form on thin dry soils sometimes forming dense thickets
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  • (Bot.), the popular name of several dwarfish species of oak. The scrub oak of New England and the Middle States is Quercus ilicifolia, a scraggy shrub; that of the Southern States is a small tree (Q. Catesbæi); that of the Rocky Mountain region is Q. undulata, var. Gambelii.
Webster 1913

scrub palmetto

  • noun small hardy clump-forming spiny palm of southern United States
    saw palmetto; Serenoa repens.
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scrub pine

  • noun common small shrubby pine of the eastern United States having straggling often twisted or branches and short needles in bunches of 2
    Jersey pine; Pinus virginiana; Virginia pine.
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scrub plane

  • noun a narrow woodworking plane used to cut away excess stock
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Scrub race

  • a race between scrubs, or between untrained animals or contestants.
Webster 1913

Scrub robin

  • (Zoöl.), an Australian singing bird of the genus Drymodes.
Webster 1913

scrub typhus

  • noun transmitted by larval mites and widespread in Asia
    tsutsugamushi disease.
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scrub up

  • verb wash thoroughly
    scrub.
    • surgeons must scrub prior to an operation
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scrub-bird

  • noun small fast-running Australian bird resembling a wren and frequenting brush or scrub
    scrubbird; scrub bird.
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scrubbing brush

  • noun a brush with short stiff bristles for heavy cleaning
    scrubber; scrub brush.
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seaside scrub oak

  • noun small evergreen shrub or tree of southeastern United States; often forms almost impenetrable thickets in sandy coastal areas
    myrtle oak; Quercus myrtifolia.
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