scrubland
noun
scrub·land
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Definition of scrubland
: land covered with scrub
Examples of scrubland in a Sentence
a large area of scrubland
the scrublands of the American West
Recent Examples on the Web
The South Texas Family Residential Center sits off a vast stretch of scrubland in a tiny former oil-boom town, an hour south of San Antonio. — oregonlive.com, "The ICE chief called family detention ‘summer camp. Here’s what it looks like inside," 25 Aug. 2019 Residents cowered in their homes or fled down the highway through mountainous tropical scrubland. — Washington Post, "Toxic mix of gangs, vigilantes fuels rising Mexican violence," 22 June 2019 At a spring in the scrubland on the southern fringes of Harare, the water this week had slowed to a trickle, forcing residents to wait for about three hours to fill their buckets. — New York Times, "In Zimbabwe, the Water Taps Run Dry and Worsen ‘a Nightmare’," 31 July 2019 Situated approximately 30 minutes outside the village of St Remy, the Abbey de Pierredon is located on a mountaintop aerie in middle of 600 acres of forest and scrubland. — Peter Mikelbank, PEOPLE.com, "Royal Wedding Take 2! Princess Grace's Granddaughter Charlotte Casiraghi Weds in Second Ceremony," 29 June 2019 The scrublands of Castro Valley and Fremont glowed bright orange. — Patrick May, The Mercury News, "Epic Bay Area sunset: 15 great Instagram shots of Thursday night’s colors," 28 June 2019 When workers first dug into the rusty dirt beneath the scrublands of Australia’s Tanami Desert to mine for gold in 2002, mining executives saw dollar signs. — Quanta Magazine, "A Domesticated Dingo? No, but Some Are Getting Less Wild," 23 Jan. 2018 Nineteen comuneros try to grow wheat and raise sheep and goats on 2,800 hectares (7,000 acres) of semi-arid scrubland. — The Economist, "The feisty fog-catchers of Chile," 14 June 2018 There’s so little traffic that the surrounding scrubland is beginning to reclaim some of the parking lots. — Peter Schwartzstein, Smithsonian, "How Saddam and ISIS Killed Iraqi Science," 30 May 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'scrubland.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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scrubland
noun
English Language Learners Definition of scrubland
: land that is covered with small bushes and trees
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