scrubland.

Land chiefly covered with shrubs and low woody plants rather than tall trees.

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Words that belong together

• dry scrubland
• coastal scrubland

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The road crossed dry scrubland before reaching the dunes.

Usage notes

Primary category: setting / environment. Forms: Usually uncountable; no ordinary plural in this sense. 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.