scrubby

adjectives

sparsely covered with stunted trees or vegetation and underbrush
"open scrubby woods"
scrabbly, scrubby
is derived from
scrubbiness
is derived from
scrub
inferior in size or quality
"scrawny cattle"; "scrubby cut-over pine"; "old stunted thorn trees"
scrawny, scrubby, stunted
is derived from
scrubbiness