shrub-like

The creature evolved in dunes anchored by shrub-like shinnery oaks, developing larger scales over its ear openings to keep sand out and long front toes to run up steep, sandy slopes.

Reptile Roils Oil Patch Ana Campoy 2011

They were always masses of leaves and shrub-like branches shot through with hot sunshine.

Chapter 45 2010

The creature evolved in dunes anchored by shrub-like shinnery oaks, developing larger scales over its ear openings to keep sand out and long front toes to run up steep, sandy slopes.

Reptile Roils Oil Patch Ana Campoy 2011

Although the boreal forest “treeline” is generally used as a marker for the transition from subarctic to tundra zones, some small shrub-like trees can be found in the lower parts of the tundra.

Arctic 2010

Stevia is a shrub-like plant native to South and Central America, known for its sweet leaves.

Pooja R. Mottl: Can Stevia Solve Our Obsession With Sweetness? 2010

Stevia is a shrub-like plant native to South and Central America, known for its sweet leaves.

Pooja R. Mottl: Can Stevia Solve Our Obsession With Sweetness? 2010

This ecoregion is comprised of mountainous shrub-like Mediterranean xeric woodlands.

Kopet Dag woodlands and forest steppe 2008

The Turkmen maple is a small tree, two to three meters tall, its shrub-like characteristics are due to its ability to regenerate from the trunk after harvesting, fires or grasing.

Kopet Dag woodlands and forest steppe 2008

The high summits are characterized by a shrub-like alder (Alnus suaveolens) and juniper (Juniperus communis subsp. alpina), and maple (Acer pseudoplatanus).

Corsican montane broadleaf and mixed forests 2008

Degraded shrub-like communities dominate elsewhere as a result of intense overgrazing and fire management on pasture land, intense pruning and uprooting for firewood collection, and tannin production.

Mediterranean woodlands and forests 2007