What's the difference between scrubby and shrubby?
Scrubby
Definition:
(superl.) Of the nature of scrub; small and mean; stunted in growth; as, a scrubby cur.
Example Sentences:
(1) Built on a scrubby ridge of limestone pavement, the houses of Khirbet Susiya are closely overlooked by a neighbouring Israeli settlement built on land expropriated from the villagers – illegal under international law – and, unlike the Palestinian village, connected to public services.
(2) Photograph: Landmark Trust It’s supposed to be an easy, hour-and-a-half walk but on the boat we sit in summer dresses and sandals watching what seems to be an awful lot of scrubby, mountainous terrain float by.
(3) Only during the last few weeks of the conflict did the world begin to take notice of events in the rough, scrubby plains of northern Sri Lanka.
(4) A few suspiciously straight lines in a corner of a 1951 aerial photograph showing acres of featureless scrubby heath have led archaeologists to a lost first world war landscape.
(5) In a terrain that was recently farmland and is now a butchered waste, the most depressing detail is the featureless, scrubby horizon.
(6) And that is what he has done by turning an insignificant protest in a scrubby little park into a national emergency.
(7) About four minutes in, it switches to Bergdahl waiting for release in a battered pickup truck in scrubby wilderness just off a dirt road.
(8) Behind the campus of the Hebrew University a scrubby hill drops steeply to the East Jerusalem village of Isawiya.
(9) Where the scrubby fields of central Gaza meet the Israeli border fence, there is a locked gate.
(10) As you fly west over Texas, the lush pastureland and whitewashed farms gradually give way to scrubby hills dotted with trailer-homes - and then eventually to the desert, inhabited solely by clusters of oil wells.
(11) It was scrubby and nicotine-hued for months last year after thousands of occupying protesters erected tents, noodle stalls and pop-up hair salons during efforts to topple the elected government.
(12) I didn’t think they’d want to come out here.” For “here” is not the leafy London suburb of the same name but an isolated and scrubby corner of a British military base at Dhekelia, on Cyprus’s south-eastern coast.
(13) The returning refugees whose makeshift homes are scattered in the scrubby forest around the A9 exist on food rations and occasional days of paid labour.
(14) On Friday, at Central Islip’s vast federal courthouse, which rises like a white edifice in scrubby woodland five miles from where the murders took place, President Trump’s attorney general, Jeff Sessions, restated his commitment to helping the police battle street gangs.
(15) In an enormous clay pit set in scrubby woodland outside the hamlet of Tomasica, British, American and Bosnian forensic experts from the ICMP, along with counterparts from Bosnia's Missing Persons Institute, are digging up hundreds of muddy, grey-brown corpses.
(16) In the summer, Davies says, the flock ditches the scrubby shelter of the odd cluster of eucalypts to follow the turbine’s shade, stretching out along the shadow cast by the 80m pole like a woolly sundial.
(17) There's a group of people seen from far off in the scrubby brown landscape.
(18) It took them 10 days to reach Pathai, a scrubby village in remote central Jonglei.
(19) Boyce was narrowly the bookies' favourite for the prize, ahead of painter George Shaw, who chronicles the scrubby, dilapidated suburban streets of his native Midlands.
(20) In a terrain that was recently farmland, the most depressing detail is the featureless, scrubby horizon These dispirited infantrymen hardly even have the luxury of a trench; they huddle in what looks like a gash left behind by a shell, and may have been told – as were many of their colleagues – to use clods of earth as camouflage, burying themselves alive.
Shrubby
Definition:
(superl.) Full of shrubs.
(superl.) Of the nature of a shrub; resembling a shrub.
Example Sentences:
(1) Two autoptic cases of chondroosteoplastic tracheopathy yielded features defining the lesion: continuous shrubby proliferation of the inner surface of tracheal cartilages developed bony lamellae in connection with cells of mucosa.
(2) A shrubby plant, abundant in east Kenya, Gynandropsis gynandra (L.) Brig., was shown to exhibit repellent and acaricidal properties to larvae, nymphs and adult Rhipicephalus appendiculatus and Amblyomma variegatum ticks.
(3) Europe’s largest lizards chase after tawny pipit birds on the giant dunes, which are protected by gorse, bright yellow Medicago marina and shrubby everlasting.
(4) Adult ticks were more common in high-shrub habitats (shrubby vegetation greater than or equal to 1 m high) than in grassy and lowshrub habitats (vegetation less than 1 m) in spring and fall.