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scrubby

[skruhb-ee] / ˈskrʌb i /


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Kharg Island, a scrubby stretch of land in the northern Gulf, handles almost all of Iran's crude exports and any attempt to seize it would mark a major escalation in the conflict, analysts say.

From Barron's • Mar. 11, 2026

To reach Australia’s pole in 2022, Brown flew to a town in the interior desert, rented a 4X4 and off-roaded across scrubby ranchland.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 23, 2026

It was a landscape of scrubby shrubs and chaparral and grasses.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 10, 2025

She says she had been stuck in France for two months, after travelling there from Vietnam via Hungary, sleeping in tents in a scrubby forest.

From BBC • Jan. 5, 2025

Mr. Weasley was shaking hands with a ruddy-faced wizard with a scrubby brown beard, who was holding a moldy-looking old boot in his other hand.

From "Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire" by J. K. Rowling