shrubbier; shrubbiest
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The report found that tiger populations had increased across India, with the highest number in Madhya Pradesh, a hot, shrubby state with more than 500 cats.
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Kai Schultz, BostonGlobe.com, 29 July 2019
But the game animals Ledford wants to showcase need sprawling expanses of flat, shrubby grassland.
—Leslie Nemo, Scientific American, 11 July 2018
This quick growing, shrubby perennial from Africa is grown as an annual here.
—Jo Ellen Meyers Sharp, Indianapolis Star, 27 Apr. 2018
Carolina and Virginia roses can make a thick, shrubby patch.
—Andrea F. Siegel, baltimoresun.com, 20 Mar. 2018
In front of him, a huge wall of windows is serving up a wide view of Silicon Valley—a brown, shrubby stretch clear out to the Santa Cruz Mountains.
—Katrina Brooker, Newsweek, 4 June 2014
These cultivars tend to be shrubbier and bloom somewhat later, which minimizes the chance they’ll be damaged by a late freeze.
—NOLA.com, 3 Mar. 2018
Spurred by warmer growing seasons, such shrubby vegetation as alders and willows have crept uphill, replacing alpine tundra the sheep feed on.
—Rick Sinnott, Alaska Dispatch News, 24 June 2017
Kai Schultz, BostonGlobe.com, 29 July 2019
But the game animals Ledford wants to showcase need sprawling expanses of flat, shrubby grassland.
—Leslie Nemo, Scientific American, 11 July 2018
This quick growing, shrubby perennial from Africa is grown as an annual here.
—Jo Ellen Meyers Sharp, Indianapolis Star, 27 Apr. 2018
Carolina and Virginia roses can make a thick, shrubby patch.
—Andrea F. Siegel, baltimoresun.com, 20 Mar. 2018
In front of him, a huge wall of windows is serving up a wide view of Silicon Valley—a brown, shrubby stretch clear out to the Santa Cruz Mountains.
—Katrina Brooker, Newsweek, 4 June 2014
These cultivars tend to be shrubbier and bloom somewhat later, which minimizes the chance they’ll be damaged by a late freeze.
—NOLA.com, 3 Mar. 2018
Spurred by warmer growing seasons, such shrubby vegetation as alders and willows have crept uphill, replacing alpine tundra the sheep feed on.
—Rick Sinnott, Alaska Dispatch News, 24 June 2017
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shrubby
adjective
shrub·by
ˈshrəb-ē 
shrubbier; shrubbiest
1
: consisting of or covered with shrubs
a shrubby hillside
2
: resembling a shrub
a shrubby palm
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