資料來源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Scrub \Scrub\, 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 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.]
{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}.
資料來源 : WordNet®
Quercus ilicifolia
n : shrubby oak of southeastern United States usually forming
dense thickets [syn: {bear oak}]