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    scrub brush
    [ noun ]
    a brush with short stiff bristles for heavy cleaning
    <noun.artifact>


    Scrub \Scrub\ (skr[u^]b), n.
    1. One who labors hard and lives meanly; a mean fellow. ``A
    sorry scrub.'' --Bunyan.

    We should go there in as proper a manner as
    possible; nor altogether like the scrubs about us.
    --Goldsmith.

    2. Something small and mean.

    3. A worn-out brush. --Ainsworth.

    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. [U.S.]

    6. Vegetation of inferior quality, though sometimes thick and
    impenetrable, growing in poor soil or in sand; also,
    brush; -- called also {scrub brush}. See {Brush}, above.
    [Australia & South Africa]
    [Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC]

    7. (Forestry) A low, straggling tree of inferior quality.
    [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

    {Scrub bird} (Zo["o]l.), an Australian passerine bird of the
    family {Atrichornithid[ae]}, 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.
    Catesb[ae]i}); that of the Rocky Mountain region is {Q.
    undulata}, var. Gambelii.

    {Scrub robin} (Zo["o]l.), an Australian singing bird of the
    genus {Drymodes}.

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