scrubland

nounC1Very rare — outside the 30,000 commonest English words, so you will meet it in writing rather than in speechleans written

Other forms: scrublands

Scrubland is dry land covered with low rough bushes. Miles of scrubland.

It is treated as waste ground and is often the richest habitat in a landscape. Scrubland burns easily, which is why it is cleared near any building.

Definitions of scrubland

1nounscrublandDry land covered with low rough bushes.C1
“The scrubland behind the estate held more birds than the park did.”

scrubland is land.

Where it comes from

Scrub plus land; scrub is a variant of shrub and named stunted growth.

From scrub + land.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

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scrubland in the wild

Cuban cactus scrub contains four vegetation zones: xerophytic coastal and subcoastal scrubland, coastal thorny semidesert, coastal sclerophyllous scrubland, and rocky coastal scrublands.
Cuban cactus scrub
Shrubland, scrubland, scrub, brush, or bush is a plant community characterized by vegetation dominated by shrubs, often also including grasses, herbs, and geophytes.
Shrubland
The area harbors several environments: scrubland, savanna, swamps, and small lakes.
Chaco National Park
About half this area is cultivated and the other half is low mountain scrubland used for hunting.
Guijoso
The karoo korhaan lives in a range of arid habitats associated with the karoo and other arid scrubland habitats found in western South Africa and Namibia.
Karoo korhaan

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