scrubby.

Covered with low, sparse woody vegetation, or growing in a stunted untidy way.

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Words that belong together

• scrubby hillside
• scrubby growth

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Scrubby growth clung to the stony hillside.

Usage notes

Primary category: setting / environment. Forms: Comparative more scrubby; superlative most scrubby when comparison is meaningful. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Writing functions: setting, description. Commonness: moderately common.