Definition of "scrabbly" []

• Sparsely covered with stunted trees or vegetation and underbrush (adjective)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

• "I shudder to think how much money has been wasted trying to grow grass on those poor scrabbly squares of dirt."
• "Every bit of land is tilled and farmed, even the scrabbly, rocky hillsides and the narrow strips of grass along the highway."
• "And in our two-hour drive from the airport, he was amazed by the scrabbly red Southwestern landscape, so different from the green and trees we had at home in Brooklyn; he asked me the name of every piece of brush he could see."