scrog

/skɹɒɡ/

Etymology

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

scrog means A stunted or shrivelled bush. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 87 out of 100.

noun

A stunted or shrivelled bush.
Brushwood.
The branch of a tree, especially one used as a charge in Scottish heraldry.“Argent, a Palm-tree growing out of a Mount in base proper, surmounted of S. Andrews-cross Gules, on a chiet azur [...]. Azur, a Cheveron Or, betwixt two Scrogs or starved branches in chief, and a mans heart in base argent.”
The crab-apple tree.
A blackthorn.