scrubland
noun
land on which the natural vegetation is chiefly scrub.
scrublands
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pluralof scrubland.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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She then added climate data from up to 6000 years ago and asked the model to predict which species could have slithered through ancient Egypt’s savanna and scrublands.
From Science Magazine ● Oct. 16, 2023
The scrublands of South Texas are ideal habitat for the secretive ocelot, says Landon Schofield, a range and wildlife biologist for the East Foundation, which owns and manages 220,000 acres in the region.
From National Geographic ● Oct. 5, 2023
Two wildfires that ravaged different parts of Spokane County on Friday afternoon destroyed 300 structures, including homes and outbuildings, and torched 18,000 acres of homes, scrublands, farm fields and forests.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 20, 2023
Native to coastal scrublands, dunes and riverbanks near California's Pacific ocean, the pocket mouse's range once stretched from Los Angeles to the US-Mexico border.
From BBC ● Feb. 9, 2023
And, too, out of the hundreds of creeks running through the scrublands, I only saw one that had gone dry.
From From Chart House to Bush Hut Being the Record of a Sailor's 7 Years in the Queensland Bush by Charles W. L. Bryde
