Synonyms:
scrawny, scrubby, stunted
Meaning: inferior in size or quality; "scrawny cattle"; "scrubby cut-over pine"; "old stunted thorn trees"
Usage examples
She climbed a small sand-hill covered with stunted little trees and looked about, but could see no trace of the little darky.
Breasting a long slope, we reached the summit of a broad, smoothly rounding ridge covered with a dense growth of stunted spruce.
We inspect the stunted rosemaries along the edge of a path sheltered by a rocky, wooded slope; we lift the branches that spread over the ground.
It was nearly dark before she gave up trying to find her way to the fort, and, shivering and half afraid, crawled under the scraggly branches of some stunted trees on a sheltered slope.
Stunted pines grew in the fissures of the rocks, and their strong roots helped the clinging hands and feet as the boy painfully climbed, slipped, and swung along, fearing every minute to come to some impassable barrier in the dangerous path.