Open scrubby woods. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Unfortunately, in scrubby far South Texas, we had nothing like a jungle. From Wordnik.com. [WILLIAM DAVID BARNETT 10 NOVEMBER 1958 - 19 JUNE 2001] Reference
Another description is called the scrubby oak -- it resembles the British gnarled oak, and is remarkably hard and durable. From Wordnik.com. [The Conquest of Canada (Vol. 1 of 2)] Reference
Very scrubby for a few miles and then more open forest. From Wordnik.com. [McKinlay's Journal of Exploration in the Interior of Australia] Reference
With misgivings we made trial of the scrubby looking ears. From Wordnik.com. [An Ohio Woman in the Philippines Giving personal experiences and descriptions including incidents of Honolulu, ports in Japan and China] Reference
Nothing but some scattering, scrubby bushes grows in the deserts. From Wordnik.com. [A Soldier in the Philippines] Reference
He gazed across the shimmering desert to a ridge of scrubby hills. From Wordnik.com. [The Quantum Jump] Reference
The country was thinly wooded in some places and scrubby at others. From Wordnik.com. [Journal of Landsborough's Expedition from Carpentaria In search of Burke and Wills] Reference
ZWERDLING: They're passing palm trees and scrubby fields on the right. From Wordnik.com. [With Traumatic Brain Injuries, Soldiers Face Battle For Care] Reference
When they do, they form small, scrubby trees that are of little value. From Wordnik.com. [Seasoning of Wood] Reference
Our path today came over six miles of unavailable barren scrubby ridges. From Wordnik.com. [Journal of Landsborough's Expedition from Carpentaria In search of Burke and Wills] Reference
I would be drawn to these completely mongrel-like, scrubby little places. From Wordnik.com. [Love, Death, Light] Reference
Nature took her course; the result, scrubby trees and disgruntled planters. From Wordnik.com. [Northern Nut Growers Association Thirty-Fourth Annual Report 1943] Reference
We left camp this morning at 8.50 and came over scrubby country for six miles. From Wordnik.com. [Journal of Landsborough's Expedition from Carpentaria In search of Burke and Wills] Reference
He walked wearily back to his scrubby little bedroom to wait for night to come. From Wordnik.com. [Danger in Deep Space] Reference
"Poor doggy!" she said, hobbling around the end of the hedge of scrubby bushes. From Wordnik.com. [Six Little Bunkers at Cowboy Jack's] Reference
At others it was scrubby, thereby detracting from its value for some time to come. From Wordnik.com. [Journal of Landsborough's Expedition from Carpentaria In search of Burke and Wills] Reference
Art Fergus's team of scrubby broncos were so tired they didn't even balk in harness. From Wordnik.com. [Land of the Burnt Thigh] Reference
But the yellow-looking creature only tried to creep farther under the scrubby bushes. From Wordnik.com. [Six Little Bunkers at Cowboy Jack's] Reference
The country we saw was like that seen yesterday, except being scrubby at a few places. From Wordnik.com. [Journal of Landsborough's Expedition from Carpentaria In search of Burke and Wills] Reference
In front of them extended a long pool of water, with a scrubby growth around the edges. From Wordnik.com. [Astounding Stories of Super-Science February 1930] Reference
Unerringly Jim led them to the entrance of a narrow trail penetrating the scrubby growth. From Wordnik.com. [Jim Spurling, Fisherman or Making Good] Reference
The journey today has been over thick scrubby forest which tore our pack-bags a good deal. From Wordnik.com. [McKinlay's Journal of Exploration in the Interior of Australia] Reference
The settlers hacked down the scrubby forests, or cerrado, only to find weak and acidic soil. From Wordnik.com. [BRAZIL'S GROWING POWER] Reference
Those hardships made the men look rather rough and scrubby, and they were all miserably poor. From Wordnik.com. [Reno — a Book of Short Stories and Information] Reference
The sun was mounting over the scrubby oak copse behind our camp, and the day grew warm apace. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 4, August, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
In the other world, the ground seemed to fall away, with low scrubby brush in the foreground. From Wordnik.com. [Cat and Mouse] Reference
The bunker is a two-story concrete control room embeded in a mound of earth and scrubby grass. From Wordnik.com. [Russia's Nuclear Secrets] Reference
There are clumps of scrubby oak completely covered with scarlet honeysuckle and trumpet-flower. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 26, August, 1880 of Popular Literature and Science] Reference
That's why the great healthy herds of animals were found on scrubby, semi-arid grasslands like the. From Wordnik.com. [Organic Gardener's Composting] Reference
As we approached the well of Mighar the signs of population increased, and a few scrubby acacias grow near. From Wordnik.com. [Southern Arabia] Reference
He was pointing to the scrubby growth on the brow of the hill where she had first seen the bear of Kon Klayu. From Wordnik.com. [Where the Sun Swings North] Reference
He climbed up the cliffs and found himself on a scrubby sort of soil dotted here and there with stunted trees. From Wordnik.com. [The Kangaroo Marines] Reference
Such spots too often lie waste or galled or at best are covered with weeds, briars, bushes or useless scrubby trees. From Wordnik.com. [Northern Nut Growers Association, report of the proceedings at the eighth annual meeting Stamford, Connecticut, September 5 and 6, 1917] Reference
Forsythe, Laketon's wealthiest resident -- hundreds of acres of scrubby woodland that he considered well nigh worthless. From Wordnik.com. [Astounding Stories of Super-Science February 1930] Reference
If they appear wild and uncouth, they carry beneath that scrubby exterior the will of men and the open heart of the child. From Wordnik.com. [The Kangaroo Marines] Reference
They were a scrubby lot of hardly human things, stunted, gnarled pigmies, with no hats or shoes, and scarcely a rag of clothing. From Wordnik.com. [An Ohio Woman in the Philippines Giving personal experiences and descriptions including incidents of Honolulu, ports in Japan and China] Reference
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