bush
/ˈbʊʃ/ noun A2- A woody plant distinguished from a tree by its multiple stems and lower height, being usually less than six metres tall; a horticultural rather than strictly botanical category.
- A shrub cut off, or a shrublike branch of a tree. · bushes to support pea vines
- A shrub or branch, properly, a branch of ivy (sacred to Bacchus), hung out at vintners' doors, or as a tavern sign; hence, a tavern sign, and symbolically, the tavern itself.
- A person's pubic hair, especially a woman's.
- The tail, or brush, of a fox.
Plural bushes
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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The bushes rustled a little in the thicket, and Father Wolf dropped with his haunches under him, ready for his leap.
The cub is mine, and to my teeth he will come in the end, O bush-tailed thieves!”
“I hunt among the plowed fields tonight,” and he plunged downward through the bushes, to the stream at the bottom of the valley.
It was a large garden, only half cultivated, with bushes, as big as summer-houses, of Marshal Niel roses, lime and orange trees, clumps of bamboos, and thickets of high grass.
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