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Definition: Scrub robin

Scrub \Scrub\ (skr[u^]b), n.
1. One who labors hard and lives meanly; a mean fellow. ``A
sorry scrub.'' --Bunyan.
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We should go there in as proper a manner as
possible; nor altogether like the scrubs about us.
--Goldsmith.
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2. Something small and mean.
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3. A worn-out brush. --Ainsworth.
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4. A thicket or jungle, often specified by the name of the
prevailing plant; as, oak scrub, palmetto scrub, etc.
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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.]
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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]
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7. (Forestry) A low, straggling tree of inferior quality.
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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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