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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]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

148 Moby Thesaurus words for "scrubby": Lilliputian, Tom Thumb, abject, abominable, afforestational, arborary, arboreal, arboreous, arborescent, arboresque, arborical, arboriform, arrant, atrocious, base, base-minded, bedraggled, beggarly, beneath contempt, bosky, braky, broken-down, bushlike, bushy, cheap, cheesy, citrous, common, coniferous, contemptible, copsy, crummy, debased, deciduous, degraded, dendriform, dendritic, dendroid, dendrologic, depraved, despicable, dingy, dirty, disgusting, down-at-heel, dumpy, dwarf, dwarfed, dwarfish, elfin, evergreen, execrable, faded, flagrant, forest, forestal, forested, foul, fulsome, gaudy, gimcracky, grave, gross, hardwood, heinous, ignoble, incipient, little, low, low-down, low-minded, lumpen, mangy, meager, mean, measly, meretricious, midget, miserable, monstrous, nanoid, nefarious, nondeciduous, obnoxious, odious, paltry, pathetic, petty, piny, pitiable, pitiful, poky, poor, pygmy, rank, reforestational, reptilian, rubbishy, rudimental, rudimentary, run-down, runty, sad, scabby, scraggy, scrubbly, scrublike, scruffy, scummy, scurvy, scuzzy, seedy, shabby, shoddy, shriveled, shrubby, shrublike, shrunk, shrunken, silvicultural, small, softwood, sorry, squalid, squat, stunted, sylvan, tacky, timbered, trashy, treelike, trumpery, two-for-a-cent, two-for-a-penny, twopenny, twopenny-halfpenny, undersize, undersized, unmentionable, valueless, vile, wizened, wooded, woodland, woodsy, woody, worthless, wretched