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词汇 scroggy
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scroggy adj.

"overgrown with bushes or stunted trees," mid-15c., from scrog (n.) "a stunted bush, a shrub-like plant" (c. 1400, scrogge), also in place-names, which probably is related to scrag "a lean person or thing" (1570s; also compare scraggly). A Scottish and northern English word.

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