scrub /ˈskrʌb/
用力擦洗,矮樹,矮人,渺小之物(vt.)用力擦洗,擦掉,摩擦(vi.)擦洗乾淨
scrub /ˈskrəb/ 動詞
劣等牲畜,洗滌,擦洗,刷,滌氣,洗氣,密生灌叢,密灌叢
Scrub v. t. [imp. & p. p. Scrubbed p. pr. & vb. n. Scrubbing.] To rub hard; to wash with rubbing; usually, to rub with a wet brush, or with something coarse or rough, for the purpose of cleaning or brightening; as, to scrub a floor, a doorplate.
Scrub v. i. To rub anything hard, especially with a wet brush; to scour; hence, to be diligent and penurious; as, to scrub hard for a living.
Scrub n.
1. One who labors hard and lives meanly; a mean fellow. “A sorry scrub.”
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.
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]
7. Forestry A low, straggling tree of inferior quality.
Scrub bird Zool., an Australian passerine bird of the family Atrichornithidae, 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 (Quercus Catesbaei); that of the Rocky Mountain region is Quercus undulata, var. Gambelii.
Scrub robin Zool., an Australian singing bird of the genus Drymodes.
Scrub a. Mean; dirty; contemptible; scrubby.
How solitary, how scrub, does this town look! --Walpole.
No little scrub joint shall come on my board. --Swift.
Scrub game, a game, as of ball, by unpracticed players.
Scrub race, a race between scrubs, or between untrained animals or contestants.
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scrub
adj : (of domestic animals) not selectively bred
n 1: dense vegetation consisting of stunted trees or bushes [syn:
chaparral, bush]
2: the act of cleaning a surface by rubbing it with a brush and
soap and water [syn: scrubbing, scouring]
v 1: clean with hard rubbing; "She scrubbed his back" [syn: scour]
2: wash thoroughly; "surgeons must scrub prior to an operation"
[syn: scrub up]
[also: scrubbing, scrubbed]