What is the meaning of scrubby?

adjective

  • Sparsely covered with stunted trees or vegetation and underbrush.
    • usage: "open scrubby woods"
  • Inferior in size or quality.
    • usage: "scrawny cattle"; "scrubby cut-over pine"; "old stunted thorn trees"
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