(The director, Shekhar Kapur, made the same point in his grim 1994 Indian epic The Bandit Queen , against a backdrop of scrubby plains along the Ganges.)

Un-made road cutting across scrubby plains.

Two-thirds live in the capital, Reykjavik; the rest are spread across 39,800 square miles of volcanic rock, treeless tundra and scrubby plains.

I am in a dry sandy place, jagged gray hills jutting at disturbing tilted angles in the distance, whirlwinds circling restlessly over the scrubby plain.

We flew over desert, mountains, rivers, scrubby plains.

It was cold out here between the northern edge of the woods and the undulating, brown scrubby plain that sloped up and up toward distant snow-tipped mountains.

I waved and we were starting down hill through the village on a narrow track that led down and on to the scrubby dry plain that spread out below the two great blue hills.

It is native to western North America from British Columbia to California to New Mexico, where it grows in sagebrush, woodlands, forest, scrubby open plains, and other habitat.

In one of the prints that were flashed on the video screen, George Eastman is wearing pith helmut and khakis, standing in front of an auto parked on a scrubby plain.

Except for the winding trail torn like a scar through the brush cover, there was nothing to see except kilometer upon kilometer of undulating, scrubby plain.