4. A thicket or jungle, often specified by the name of the prevailing
plant; as, oak scrub, palmetto scrub, etc.
5. (Stock Breeding) One of the common live stock of a region of no
particular breed or not of pure breed, esp. when inferior in size, etc.
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Scrub bird (Zoöl.), an Australian passerine bird of the family
Atrichornithidæ, as Atrichia clamosa; -- called also brush bird. --
Scrub oak (Bot.), the popular name of several dwarfish species of oak.
The scrub oak of New England and the Middle States is Quercus
ilicifolia, a scraggy shrub; that of the Southern States is a small
tree (Q. Catesbæi); that of the Rocky Mountain region is Q. undulata,
var. Gambelii. -- Scrub robin (Zoöl.), an Australian singing bird of
the genus Drymodes.
Scrub, a. Mean; dirty; contemptible; scrubby.
How solitary, how scrub, does this town look!
Walpole.
No little scrub joint shall come on my board.
Swift.
Scrub game, a game, as of ball, by unpracticed players. -- Scrub race,
a race between scrubs, or between untrained animals or contestants.
Scrub"bed (?), a. Dwarfed or stunted; scrubby.
Scrub"ber (?), n. 1. One who, or that which, scrubs; esp., a brush used
in scrubbing.