scrub

Converse of object

• exfoliate: If you have time, soak the feet once again and massage with a foot exfoliating scrub.
• encroach: To provide suitable conditions for the reserve's specialist soldier flies encroaching scrub is periodically cut back from around wet flushes.

Preposition: in

• northwest: In the scrub in the northwest of Mill Hill there were two Speckled Wood Butterflies and a single Peacock Butterfly.

Adjective modifier

• spp.: The constituent willows of Sub-Arctic Salix spp. scrub also occur occasionally in a range of other habitats, including several Annex I types.
• hazel: On the steeper slopes hazel scrub and upland mixed ashwood have developed.
• thorny: Please bring warm clothes, stout boots and gloves as there will be sawing and removing thorny scrub involved.
• montane: Site selection rationale The SAC series reflects the UK's special responsibilities for conserving montane willow scrub.
• arid: Eventually we will reach the pass and the lush cloud forests give way first to Puna then arid montane scrub.
• birch: In 1992 BTCV cleared most of the birch scrub to address the problem.

Modifies a noun

• encroachment: Scrub encroachment is the common result, sometimes together with invasive species problems.
• clearance: Scrub clearance is also continuing apace on the upper end of the line.
• bashing: NWPG return to the W & A for the weekend of 14/15th January when we plan some scrub bashing and bonfires.
• jay: They also sounded much different than the usual scrub jay chatter.
• typhus: A number of rodents serve as reservoirs for human diseases, such as bubonic plague, tularemia, scrub typhus, and others.

Noun used with modifier

• juniper: Juniper scrub in the Durham area What is the state of juniper scrub in the Durham area?
• gorse: At the latter sites, gorse scrub may also occur.
• hawthorn: At the southwestern edge of the wood there is an area of hawthorn scrub surrounding a small area of flower-rich grassland.
• willow: Oakwood And Ash Plantation Consists of woodland, grassland, willow scrub and water, and a network of woodland paths.
• acacia: This consists largely of fairly open areas with stands of gingerbread plum and other small trees, acacia scrub and some Rhun palms.
• blackthorn: Hawthorn and blackthorn scrub has covered areas of the banks turning them into a haven for warblers and spotted flycatcher.