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View synonyms for scrubland

scrubland

[ skruhb-land ]

noun

  1. land on which the natural vegetation is chiefly scrub.


scrubland

/ ˈskrʌbˌlænd /

noun

  1. an area of scrub vegetation


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Word History and Origins

Origin of scrubland1

An Americanism dating back to 1770–80; scrub 2 + -land

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Example Sentences

All that day we continued through the prairies, with here and there a belt of scrubland to cut across the vision.

This female, taken in a bird net in a grass-scrubland association, was coming into breeding condition.

A freight train dragged southward in the twilight, wending its way through pine forest and scrubland.

The specimen was taken along the Apas River in scrubland near the river.

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