shrubland

noun

shrub·​land ˈshrəb-ˌland 

especially Southern ˈsrəb-

: land on which shrubs are the dominant vegetation

Examples of shrubland in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

This includes savannahs and shrublands. — Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 17 June 2026

Meanwhile, native shrublands like those around Los Angeles have historically experienced fire every 30 to 130 years. — Los Angeles Times, 5 June 2026

More broadly, the pollen came from a diverse group of environments, including forests of holly oak and pine,shrublands with olive and hazel trees, areas with alder and ash trees, and regions with fir and beech trees. — Margherita Bassi, Popular Science, 24 Apr. 2026

South America fractures into a puzzle of fjords and channels at the southernmost tip of the continent, the Brunswick Peninsula, in Chile’s Magallanes Region, where the future park will protect temperate rainforests, shrublands, and vast carbon-capturing peat bogs. — Mark Johanson, Outside, 14 Mar. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1903, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for shrubland

• armband
• backhand
• bandstand
• baseband
• broadband
• command
• cropland
• demand
• disband
• dreamland
• expand
• farmhand