scrubby
adjective
low or stunted, as trees.
scrubbiness
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a word derived from
scrubby.
Example Sentences
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Good teeth mean good deglutition; a clear eye means an active liver; scrubbiness and undersizedness mean feeble virility.
From Falling in Love With Other Essays on More Exact Branches of Science by Grant Allen
That sense of scrubbiness in nature, as of a man unshaved, had never been conveyed with this enthusiasm and primeval gusto before.
From Robert Browning by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton
I could feel it growing, and the first scrubbiness of it filled me with rage.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, May 30, 1917 by Sir Owen Seaman
