scrog

English

Alternative forms

• scroag

Etymology

Compare scrag, or Scottish Gaelic sgrogag (“anything shriveled”), from sgrag (“to compress, shrivel”).

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɒɡ

Noun

scrog (countable and uncountable, plural scrogs)

1. A stunted or shrivelled bush.
2. Brushwood.
3. (heraldry) The branch of a tree, especially one used as a blazon in Scotland.
4. (Scotland) The crab-apple tree.
5. (dialect) A blackthorn.