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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

Scientists discovered it living beneath semi-arid scrubland in Western Australia.

The first millipede that lives up to its name uses its 1,306 little legs to tunnel through soil deep beneath the semi-arid scrubland of Western Australia, researchers report December 16 in Scientific Reports.

There, just behind the H-E-B Supermarket, on flat reclaimed scrubland between a lake named Vadia Ancha and the Brownsville Ship Channel, a company called Texas LNG wants to build a big new export terminal.

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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