Scrabbly (Adjective)
Meaning
Sparsely covered with stunted trees or vegetation and underbrush; "open scrubby woods".
Classification
All adjective clusters.
Examples
- The desert landscape was dominated by scrabbly mesquite trees that struggled to survive in the arid soil.
- As we hiked through the mountains, the scrabbly underbrush scratched at our legs and made every step a challenge.
- The park ranger warned us about the scrabbly terrain on the trail, cautioning us to watch our step to avoid tripping.
- The once-lush meadow had given way to scrabbly weeds and thorny bushes that poked out of the dry earth.
- After a few years of drought, the normally green hills were reduced to scrabbly brown patches of earth and wilting plants.