scrub /ˈskrʌb/
 用力擦洗,矮樹,矮人,渺小之物(vt.)用力擦洗,擦掉,摩擦(vi.)擦洗乾淨


 scrub /ˈskrəb/ 動詞
 劣等牲畜,洗滌,擦洗,刷,滌氣,洗氣,密生灌叢,密灌叢


 Scrub v. t. [imp. & p. p. Scrubbed p. pr. & vb. n. Scrubbing.]  To rub hard; to wash with rubbing; usually, to rub with a wet brush, or with something coarse or rough, for the purpose of cleaning or brightening; as, to scrub a floor, a doorplate.


 Scrub v. i. To rub anything hard, especially with a wet brush; to scour; hence, to be diligent and penurious; as, to scrub hard for a living.


 Scrub n.
 1. One who labors hard and lives meanly; a mean fellow. “A sorry scrub.”
    We should go there in as proper a manner as possible; nor altogether like the scrubs about us.   --Goldsmith.
 2. Something small and mean.
 3. A worn-out brush.
 4. A thicket or jungle, often specified by the name of the prevailing plant; as, oak scrub, palmetto scrub, etc.
 5. Stock Breeding One of the common live stock of a region of no particular breed or not of pure breed, esp. when inferior in size, etc. [U.S.]
 6. Vegetation of inferior quality, though sometimes thick and impenetrable, growing in poor soil or in sand; also, brush; -- called also scrub brush. See Brush, above. [Australia & South Africa]
 7.  Forestry A low, straggling tree of inferior quality.
 Scrub bird Zool., an Australian passerine bird of the family Atrichornithidae, as Atrichia clamosa; -- called also brush bird.
 Scrub oak 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 (Quercus Catesbaei); that of the Rocky Mountain region is Quercus undulata, var. Gambelii.
 Scrub robin Zool., an Australian singing bird of the genus Drymodes.


 Scrub a. Mean; dirty; contemptible; scrubby.
    How solitary, how scrub, does this town look!   --Walpole.
    No little scrub joint shall come on my board.   --Swift.
 Scrub game, a game, as of ball, by unpracticed players.
 Scrub race, a race between scrubs, or between untrained animals or contestants.

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 scrub
      adj : (of domestic animals) not selectively bred
      n 1: dense vegetation consisting of stunted trees or bushes [syn:
            chaparral, bush]
      2: the act of cleaning a surface by rubbing it with a brush and
         soap and water [syn: scrubbing, scouring]
      v 1: clean with hard rubbing; "She scrubbed his back" [syn: scour]
      2: wash thoroughly; "surgeons must scrub prior to an operation"
         [syn: scrub up]
      [also: scrubbing, scrubbed]