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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)

scrubby
    adj 1: sparsely covered with stunted trees or vegetation and
           underbrush; "open scrubby woods" [syn: scrabbly,
           scrubby]
    2: inferior in size or quality; "scrawny cattle"; "scrubby cut-
       over pine"; "old stunted thorn trees" [syn: scrawny,
       scrubby, stunted]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Scrubby \Scrub"by\ (skr[u^]b"b[y^]), a. [Compar. Scrubbier
   (skr[u^]b"b[i^]*[~e]r); superl. Scrubbiest.]
   Of the nature of scrub; small and mean; stunted in growth;
   as, a scrubby cur. "Dense, scrubby woods." --Duke of Argyll.
   [1913 Webster]

Thesaurus Results for Scrubby:

1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

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