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Definition of manuka scrub in English: manuka scrubnoun mass nounScrubland consisting of stunted manuka trees. the plot of land was a wilderness of gorse and manuka scrub Example sentencesExamples - Up from the Horotiu valley, the ridges and the land beyond lay before the official party as a wilderness of dun-green fern, manuka scrub and tupakihi.
- Pure manuka scrub is the natural second growth scrub of the hills and is characteristic of 46-year-old vegetation.
- Fields of dirty-grey manuka scrub, averaging five feet in height, stretched before us.
- There followed the destruction of manuka scrub to develop more farmland.
- There is a tendency for forest to extend into the surrounding manuka scrub.
- Auckland's humble beginning is further underlined by the fact that Shortland St in 1841 was no more than a narrow muddy track walled on either side by manuka scrub more than 2 metres high.
- To the left, manuka scrub growing around previously cleared forest (note the dead trunks from times past).
- Thriving manuka scrub has hosted up to 2000 beehives, producing up to 56 tonnes of valuable honey a season; beef cattle also do well on the steep, scrubby country.
- He had pointed to a clump of manuka scrub that grew close to the water's edge about a mile from the rapid outlet.
- Kanuka tends to first establish on comparatively sheltered slopes with better soils, and then to invade open manuka scrub on harsher sites.
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