scrub
A thicket or jungle, often specified by the name of the prevailing plant.
Example
“oak scrub”
Other meanings
Vegetation judged to be of inferior quality or of little use to humans, though sometimes thick and impenetrable, growing in poor soil or in sand; also, brush.
One of the common livestock of a region of no particular breed or not of pure breed, especially when inferior in size, etc.; particularly a male animal poorly suited for breeding.
Word history
From Old English "scrybb".
Where this comes from
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