scrub scrubbing scouring | the act of cleaning a surface by rubbing it with a brush and soap and water |
scrubbird scrub-bird scrub bird | small fastunning Australian bird resembling a wren and frequenting brush or scrub |
domestic fowl fowl poultry | a domesticated gallinaceous bird thought to be descended from the red jungle fowl |
Cornish Cornish fowl | English breed of compact domestic fowl, raised primarily to crossbreed to produce roasters |
game fowl | any of several breeds reared for cockfighting |
jungle fowl gallina | small Asiatic wild bird, believed to be ancestral to domestic fowl |
red jungle fowl Gallus gallus | a jungle fowl of southeastern Asia that is considered ancestral to the domestic fowl |
prairie chicken prairie grouse prairie fowl | brown mottled North American grouse of western prairies |
megapode mound bird mound-bird mound builder scrub fowl | large-footed short-winged birds of Australasia, build mounds of decaying vegetation to incubate eggs |
mallee fowl leipoa lowan Leipoa ocellata | Australian mound bird, incubates eggs naturally in sandy mounds |
guinea fowl guinea Numida meleagris | a west African bird having dark plumage mottled with white, native to Africa but raised for food in many parts of the world |
chicken yard hen yard chicken run fowl run | an enclosed yard for keeping poultry |
scrub brush scrubbing brush scrubber | a brush with short stiff bristles for heavy cleaning |
scrub plane | a narrow woodworking plane used to cut away excess stock |
bird fowl | the flesh of a bird or fowl (wild or domestic) used as food |
scrub chaparral bush | dense vegetation consisting of stunted trees or bushes |
scrub nurse | a nurse who helps a surgeon prepare for surgery |
scrub pine Virginia pine Jersey pine Pinus virginiana | common small shrubby pine of the eastern United States having straggling often twisted or branches and short needles in bunches of |
scrub beefwood beefwood Stenocarpus salignus | tree or tall shrub with shiny leaves and umbels of fragrant creamy-white flowers, yields hard heavy reddish wood |
scrub oak | any of various chiefly American small shrubby oaks often a dominant form on thin dry soils sometimes forming dense thickets |
myrtle oak seaside scrub oak Quercus myrtifolia | small evergreen shrub or tree of southeastern United States, often forms almost impenetrable thickets in sandy coastal areas |
saw palmetto scrub palmetto Serenoa repens | small hardy clump-forming spiny palm of southern United States |
tsutsugamushi disease scrub typhus | transmitted by larval mites and widespread in Asia |
fowl cholera | an acute diarrheal disease (especially of chickens) caused by the microorganism that causes hemorrhagic septicemia |
fowl pest | either of two acute viral diseases of domestic fowl, characterized by refusal to eat and high temperature and discoloration of the comb |
scrub scrub up | wash thoroughly, surgeons must scrub prior to an operation |
fowl | hunt fowl in the forest |
fowl | hunt fowl |
scrub scour | clean with hard rubbing, She scrubbed his back |
cancel call off scratch scrub | postpone indefinitely or annul something that was scheduled, Call off the engagement, cancel the dinner party, we had to scrub our vacation plans, scratch that meeting--the chair is ill |
scrub | (of domestic animals) not selectively bred |