英语词汇“scrubby”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

scrub² /skrub/

noun

A stunted tree

Stunted trees and shrubs collectively

Brushwood

Country covered with bushes or low trees, esp the Australian evergreen xerophytic dwarf forest or bush of eucalyptus, acacia, etc

Hence, a remote place, far from civilization (Aust informal)

An undersized or inferior animal, esp one of indefinite breed

A player in a second or inferior team (N American)

A team of inferior players, or one with too few players (N American)

An insignificant or undersized person

Anything small or insignificant

adjective

Insignificant

Undersized

(of a team) improvised, hastily got together for the occasion (N American)

(of a player) in a second or inferior team (N American)

ORIGIN: A variant of shrub¹

scrubbˈed adjective (Shakespeare)

Stunted

scrubbˈer noun (Aust)

An animal that has run wild

scrubbˈy adjective

scrub bird noun

An elusive wren-like Australian bird (genus Atrichornis)

scrubˈland noun

An area covered with scrub

scrub rider noun (esp Aust)

A person who looks for cattle that stray into the scrub

scrub turkey or scrub fowl noun

A type of ground-living bird of the Australian scrub, a mound-builder

scrub typhus noun

A typhus-like disease caused by a parasitic microorganism and transmitted by a mite to humans (also called tsutsugamushi disease)

the Scrubs

An informal name for Wormwood Scrubs, an English prison

scrub2 /skrub/