scroggy

noun Scot. and North England.

1. any naturally short or stunted tree or bush, as a crab apple tree or blackthorn bush.
2. scrogs, underbrush; brushwood.

adj.“overgrown with bushes,” Scottish and northern English, mid-15c., from scrog (n.) “a stunted bush, a shrub-like plant” (c.1400), probably related to scrag “a lean person or thing” (1570s); cf. scraggly.