scrubby

英 [ˈskrʌbi]

美 [ˈskrʌbi]

adj.  长满灌木和矮树的; 灌木丛生的; 低矮的; 矮小的

比较级：scrubbier　

BNC.33508 / COCA.25188

牛津词典

adj.

• 长满灌木和矮树的；灌木丛生的
  covered with small bushes and trees
  1. a scrubby hillside
     灌木丛生的山坡
• 低矮的；矮小的
  small and not fully developed
  1. scrubby vegetation
     灌木植被

柯林斯词典

• ADJ (地表)崎岖干燥的,灌木丛生的
  Scrubbyland is rough and dry and covered with scrub.
  1. ...the hot, scrubby hills of western Eritrea.
     厄立特里亚西部酷热而且灌木丛生的丘陵地带

英英释义

adj

• inferior in size or quality
  1. scrawny cattle
  2. scrubby cut-over pine
  3. old stunted thorn trees
  Synonym:scrawnystunted
• sparsely covered with stunted trees or vegetation and underbrush
  1. open scrubby woods
  Synonym:scrabbly

双语例句

• Canopy interception of tree and shrub plantations in a farming-pastoral zone of Loess Plateau Bush fallow: Poor quality land covered with scrubBy vegetation.
  黄土高原农牧交错带人工乔灌木林冠截留灌木林修耕地，灌木林闲地：灌木丛生的劣质土地。
• He is a mild, bald, timid man with a shining head, and a scrubby clump of black hair sticking out at the back.
  他是个温和，胆小的人；他秃头顶，脑袋亮亮的，一撮乱蓬蓬的黑发在后面翘了起来。
• A clump of scrubby trees, such as alone grew on the peninsula, did not so much conceal the cottage from view, as seem to denote that here was some object which would fain have been, or at least ought to be, concealed.
  半岛上只长着一丛孤零零的矮树，非但没有遮住茅屋，反倒象是在指示出这里有一个目标，而那个目标原本不情愿或至少是应该被挡得看不见的。
• Bush fallow: Poor quality land covered with scrubBy vegetation.
  灌木林修耕地，灌木林闲地：灌木丛生的劣质土地。
• The property development was supposed to bring five continents, in the form of artificial islands, to scrubby farmland near the booming city of Tianjin.
  这个房地产开发项目原本要以人工岛的形式，把五大洲搬到繁荣发展的天津附近的贫瘠农地。
• Scrawny cattle; scrubby cut-over pine; old stunted thorn trees.
  瘦骨如柴的牛；矮小的被砍断的松树；老而矮小的荆棘。
• After instructions are given on how to communicate with our camels, we're off into a rough land of red dirt and low, scrubby grass.
  我们听完了如何与骆驼沟通的指导后，就出发前往布满红土与低矮草丛的荒野大地。
• Extremely dangerous; most common in areas of scattered scrubby growth; from Mojave Desert to w. Texas and into Mexico.
  异常危险；在参差的丛林地区最为普遍；从莫哈韦沙漠到得克萨斯西部并进入墨西哥地区。
• A common scrubby deciduous tree of central and southeastern United States having dark bark and broad 3-lobed ( club-shaped) leaves; tends to form dense thickets.
  美国东南部和中部常见的灌丛状的栎树，树皮黑色，叶宽，三裂片；易于形成密丛。
• The oldest living thing is also a tree& a scrubby bristle-cone pine, 4,900 years old, growing on the cold, bare side of a Nevada mountain.
  最古老的生物也是树：一株低矮的狐尾松树，4900岁，生长在美国内华达州的寒冷荒凉的山坡上。