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bushy

/ˈbʊʃi/ adjective B2
  1. Like a bush in having many branches that spread out densely in all directions. · the bushy tail of a squirrel
  2. Growing thickly. · bushy eyebrows

Comparative bushier · Superlative bushiest

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“It is time to hunt again.” He was going to spring down hill when a little shadow with a bushy tail crossed the threshold and whined: “Good luck go with you, O Chief of the Wolves.
The Jungle Book, p. 1 · B2
Trees had grown into and out of the walls; the battlements were tumbled down and decayed, and wild creepers hung out of the windows of the towers on the walls in bushy hanging clumps.
The Jungle Book, p. 47 · B2
He had spoken in jesting vein, but the twitching of his bushy eyebrows bespoke his disappointment and irritation.
The Valley of Fear, p. 8 · C1
His tall, bony figure gave promise of exceptional physical strength, while his great cranium and deep-set, lustrous eyes spoke no less clearly of the keen intelligence which twinkled out from behind his bushy eyebrows.
The Valley of Fear, p. 9 · C1

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