Scrub·by a. [Compar. Scrubbier superl. Scrubbiest.] Of the nature of scrub; small and mean; stunted in growth; as, a scrubby cur. “Dense, scrubby woods.”
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  scrubby
       adj 1: sparsely covered with stunted trees or vegetation and
              underbrush; "open scrubby woods" [syn: scrabbly]
       2: inferior in size or quality; "scrawny cattle"; "scrubby
          cut-over pine"; "old stunted thorn trees" [syn: scrawny,
           stunted]
       [also: scrubbiest, scrubbier]