ภาษาอังกฤษวันละคำ : scrubland

The noun scrubland refers to land with small bushes and trees on it. ...

• Mr The International Court of Justice ruled in 1962 that the 11th-century Hindu temple belongs to Cambodia, but Thailand insists a 4.6 sq km tract of scrubland near the temple is Thai territory.
• There were fears for tens of thousands of civilians held inside a 25 square km patch of coastal scrubland, all that remained of the Tigers' dreams for a separate state for Tamils.
• The passenger jet was flying from Moscow to Perm near the Ural mountains when it plunged into scrubland and railway tracks on the edge of the city.
• The new Burmese capital is a maze of ministry buildings, government mansions, civil servants' quarters and unfinished presidential palaces complete with grand Roman-style pillars a – all rising from dusty, arid scrubland. ...

(From Bangkok Post)