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Scrub (medicine)


scrub


1. One who labors hard and lives meanly; a mean fellow. "A sorry scrub." "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.

4. A thicket or jungle, often specified by the name of the prevailing plant; as, oak scrub, palmetto scrub, etc.

5. One of the commen live stock of a region of no particular breed or not of pure breed, especially. When inferior in size, etc.

<zoology> Scrub bird, an Australian passerine bird of the family Atrichornithidae, as Atrichia clamosa; called also brush bird.

<botany> Scrub oak, an Australian singing bird of the genus Drymodes.

Source: Websters Dictionary