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• s  sparsely covered with stunted trees or vegetation and underbrush
  open scrubby woods
• s  inferior in size or quality
  scrubby cut-over pine

• But here in Galilee where Druze and Arab villages perch on the same scrubby ridgelines as Jewish towns, all within easy reach of Hizballah rockets, and the region's peoples .
• Some 70 acres of scrubby land spread out in front of him under the washed-out blue sky.
• Mitrovica, a scrubby mining town in northern Kosovo, sits squarely on the fault line between the independence-seeking ethnic Albanian majority to the south, and the loyalist .

• scrabbly
• scrawny
• stunted

News & Articles

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• A tour inside Colorado’s Jurassic Park
  FREMONT COUNTY, Colo. -- Picture a great, tropical river running to a huge inland sea in, of all places, the scrubby, arid hills north of Canon City, studded with pinyon pines and cactus.
  June 23, 2013 - Provo Daily Herald
• A tour inside Colorado's own Jurassic Park
  FREMONT COUNTY -- Picture a great, tropical river running to a huge inland sea in, of all places, the scrubby, arid hills north of Cañon City, studded with pinyon pines and cactus.
  June 23, 2013 - Boulder Daily Camera
• Coalition pushes to save building that housed Chinese laborers
  It is hoped that recognition by the National Trust for Historic Preservation will spur donations to restore the 94-year-old Chinatown House in Rancho Cucamonga. The brick building sits on a scrubby lot in Rancho Cucamonga behind a barbed-wire and chain-link fence, its facade worn and its interior dilapidated to the point where city officials have been worried it is unsafe.        
  June 21, 2013 - Los Angeles Times

Quotes

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• Alan Rabinowitz in New York Times
  Cattle open up the landscape,Dr. Rabinowitz said, and enhance habitat for the jaguar's wild prey. "If you were to take out the cattle and let large areas revert to scrubby vegetation, you'd have far fewer jaguars in the Pantanal than you...
• Mark Richards in The Age
  It was definitely an adventure,says four-time Bells champion Mark Richards. "It was such a totally different feeling, driving past Geelong and into the scrubby land near Bells, and over the hill to see the swells lining up out to sea. It...