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noun bʊʃbʊʃ 1A shrub or clump of shrubs with stems of moderate length. Example sentencesExamples - Mr Konemann planted bushes and shrubs to keep vandals and people with dogs out of the council-owned grounds.
- Planting prickly bushes or shrubs in borders and by fences will deter burglars thinking of climbing in your garden
- The occupants of a house with a large garden found the body of former nurse Mrs Paines hidden in bushes and dense undergrowth at the far end of their property.
- He drove the party through the grounds, sometimes over clumps of bush and through shrubbery as he lost the way in his excitement.
- It is okay applied to orchard crops, vines and berry bushes and non-food-bearing shrubs and trees.
- They want to see the pretty pastel buildings contrast with flowering shrubs and bushes, and a pretty beach.
- This plant is one of the showiest dwarf evergreens, forming dense bushes of wiry stems.
- Trees, shrubs, bushes and flowering plants were being planted on the graves.
- The whole park was surrounded by tall green trees and shrubs, and flower bushes of many kinds.
- Low shrubbery, especially berry bushes that also provide a food source, makes an effective shelter.
- He led Jessica around trees, bushes, shrubs, and an empty cement pool that was at least twelve feet deep.
- These color treatments enhance landscaping and blend naturally with trees, shrubs and bushes.
- My anvil pruning shears will prune the bushes and shrubs only.
- I follow the paths in the dense undergrowth leading into bushes or spaces under trees hidden from view, particularly in the heavy growth of summer.
- They are more than just dense clumps of various kinds of trees, creepers, grasses, bushes, shrubs and twining creepers.
- She inhaled deeply and then proceeded to go about picking other flowers from other bushes and shrubs.
- The trees, bushes and shrubs are as green as anything.
- It exhibits every aspect of Dutch horticulture, from vegetables and fruit, to bulbs, flowers and plants to trees, bushes and shrubs.
- Ralier turned and saw Nyowan picking her way through a dense clump of bushes.
- Fruiting trees, bushes, and vines provide snacks for you and the birds and for your neighbors.
Synonyms shrub, woody plant (bushes), undergrowth, shrubbery, hedge, thicket - 1.1historical A bunch of ivy as a vintner's sign.
Example sentencesExamples - A branch of greenery tied to a pole and placed outside a building would identify it as a taberna and the sign was called an alestake or a bush - hence perhaps the oldest pub name, The Bush.
- An ivy bush was at one time a vintner's sign.
- So as I went to the University rather out of shame of abiding the cellar under his very house, wicker bottles dangling over even the chief entrance into the Palace, serving for a vintner's bush.
2the bush(especially in Australia and Africa) wild or uncultivated country. they have to spend a night camping in the bush Example sentencesExamples - If we didn't the countryside and the bush wouldn't be so green and lush.
- Much easier to think of her sipping espressos in the cafes of Rome, than camping in the bush.
- Its popularity quickly spread, capturing the imagination of Australians both in the bush and throughout the colony.
- It's quite exciting, that mix of the city life and not having to go very far to get into the real sort of wild bush.
- He worked in the bush on the same forestry crew as me.
- Then I'd like to go back to South Africa, to the bush, to shoot wildlife.
- They had reserves of food, they travelled huge distances in search of food, work or charity, and above all they gathered wild food from the bush.
- It is perfectly safe to camp in the bush but you should always ensure that your tent is properly closed when you go to sleep.
- On most indications that is a job description which wouldn't find many takers in the bush across northern Australia.
- The wilds of the Australian bush became a character in its own right, and it's hard to mess up such beautiful scenery.
- Two weeks on, Australia's bush blazes still show no sign of abating.
- You can crank up the thrill factor by sleeping under canvas, with the wild sounds of the bush pressing in through the walls of your tent.
- This vegetation, particularly on the continental islands, shares many similarities with the bush of the Australian mainland.
- They go and plant some trees outside, while meanwhile they rip out all the bush in Western Australia and leave behind devastation.
- Much of it is still largely untouched bush, rivers and wild coasts.
- Like most country football clubs, deep in the sometimes foreboding bush of Australia, the combatants play hard on and off the field.
- I started to run along the path, thinking that I'd not help matters if I sprained my ankle but not wanting to get stuck in the bush when darkness fell.
- In Australian literature, the bush is usually more than a backdrop.
- Nobody in regional Australia or the bush will ever trust the Nationals again.
- The mission is to keep the bush roads of Central Australia serviceable throughout the year.
Synonyms wilds, remote areas, wilderness the backwoods, the hinterland(s) North American the backcountry, the backland Australian/New Zealand the outback, the backblocks, the booay South African the backveld, the platteland North American informal the boondocks, the boonies, the tall timbers Australian/New Zealand informal Woop Woop, beyond the black stump - 2.1mass noun Vegetation growing in the bush.
the lowland country was covered in thick bush Example sentencesExamples - Not requiring long grass or thick bush for cover, their methods are those of a courser, relying on speed and dogged endurance in the chase.
- The Bush Firewise guide provides a useful checklist for preparing your property for bush and grass fires.
- The greying greenery of the landscape shows that the past summer brought adequate rainfall, particularly for grass and small bush vegetation.
- The highway then drops down to pass through the Glenhope district and through bush alongside the Hope River to Kawatiri Junction.
- They require thick bush cover, water for drinking and bathing, and short grass to eat.
- The mountain slopes that had been stripped were covered in bush and vines.
- The country's vegetation varies with trees and thick bush in the south and near-desert conditions in the north.
- It's quite stunning actually, a natural amphitheatre surrounded by hills and mountains covered in bush.
- So are many of these bush foods difficult to grow?
- When I visited the remains of my family home a couple of years ago, I found only ruins amid grass and bush.
- Thousands of hectares of bush and vegetation were destroyed.
- Failure of regular vegetation control caused Ocean Way to be partly covered by overgrowth of bush on the sea side of the road, causing a danger to road users.
- The day was a success because the bear stayed in the bush and timber, he said.
- For day after day south of Marzuk we saw nothing but stony wastes and sand dunes with never a blade of grass or bush to relieve the aridity.
- Today, it is largely covered in regenerated bush, with a thriving population of tuatara in hillside burrows.
- You can walk down through the bush to the foreshore.
- Where these trees are growing in natural bush, the fleshy fruit is a favourite with both vervet monkeys and the rarer samango monkeys.
- 2.2NZ Indigenous rainforest.
Example sentencesExamples - Visitors are recommended to take the walk through the bush on a track suitable for wheelchairs.
- In just 20 years of European settlement, 80 percent of the bush had been destroyed and the rest was in a poor state.
- Birdsong Gully, which has been running for the last month, is a set of posts in the bush where people can touch a screen and hear birds such as the little spotted kiwi and tui.
- Show our respect for the bush by keeping it in its original condition.
- Not only do they add colour, but the plant food they thrive on benefits the bush as well.
- Visit the picnic ground and the cafe and view the bush setting from flat ground.
- Walking here in the bush is like stepping back in time and seeing New Zealand's wildlife as it once was
- They were equally happy living in steep scrub and grass areas as in the bush.
- I did think they would show Helen out in the bush, which resonates with Kiwis and worked well last election.
- But it was beautiful, all that could be seen were bush covered ridges running off in all directions.
- You could compile shopping lists of aroma and flavour for both, but let's just say I would like to dance with the Rippon and go hunting in the bush with Kupe.
- The shady nature of the walk meant that we could not take photographs in the bush, so a description will have to suffice.
- Given its freedom in the bush, it corners like a jet-powered train, and soon seems to be reading the road ahead.
- The hut is still there in the bush above Maori Flat, on the east side of Rough Creek.
- My accommodation has all the delights of a tramping hut - it's peaceful, secluded, cosy and rustic, close to a stream and the bush.
- They said all the menfolk were away, up in the bush, and wouldn't be back for an hour.
- Yesterday, safe but cold and wet after a night in the bush, the trampers spoke about how they coped during an unscheduled winter's night outdoors.
- This area will be delightful when the bush matures.
- As part of the guided walk the party went out into the bush at night.
- Took a small class out today to the bush so they could collect data for doing some credits on zonation.
- 2.3South African as modifier Uncivilized or primitive.
Example sentencesExamples - We hope to persuade them to help serve and cook and wash up at the bush breakfast in return for free food.
- During the war communities in Unita-controlled areas had been subjected to violence, bush justice and plundering, an Institute of Security Studies (ISS) report says.
3A luxuriant growth of thick hair or fur. a childish face with a bush of bright hair Example sentencesExamples - A pair of short tooth-like horns poked from a bush of curly hair that topped the faun's clever-looking face.
- When the bus departed I saw that in the meantime, the old man had been joined by a little boy of very dark complexion, but with a bush of reddish hair.
- I peaked through the door and saw her bush of hair shake into a nervous nod, I saw that about two inches from her was Derek, holding an black gun right at her.
- As we finally entered the ward, the first person I saw was a tall girl topped with a bush of thick dyed black curls.
- He has the sparse hairs of a soul patch below his lip and a tiny bush of a beard on his chin.
- 3.1vulgar slang A woman's pubic hair.
verb bʊʃbʊʃ [no object]Spread out into a thick clump. her hair bushed out like a halo Example sentencesExamples - She bushed a stray lock of long, coal-black hair behind one ear and extended her right hand.
- At one point I had to adjust the crotch of her leotard very carefully because some pubic hair was bushing out.
- She bushed up to almost twice her size, put her ears back flat against her skull, and hissed like an over-heated radiator.
- He stroked his beard, grinning to himself, his parents wouldn't recognise him with the fiery red beard already bushing aggressively from his jaw.
- He ran his fingers through the gray bushing up from his scalp.
- He looks like a damn pirate, with his hair and beard bushing around his face like that.
- The cherry tree bushed out so much that it produced very little fruit, but the foliage itself had a pleasing abundance to it.
- The more water it receives, the more it will grow and bush out.
- Their tousled hair bushes out at the nape in the manner of Perugino.
- ‘The silly thing is they have cut the crown of the trees so they won't grow tall but will bush out,’ Mr Kenzler said.
- Then, I pulled my hair into a knot without bushing it and went downstairs.
Phrases Leave one's usual surroundings; run wild. Example sentencesExamples - I visited and I used to spend all my school holidays out there jackarooing, working on properties in the Harden district, and that gave me the real urge to go bush.
- Inevitably some bees escaped the hives and went bush.
- Tuesday brings a chance to go bush and enjoy a day on either of two cattle properties.
- She asked me to come home, so we can go bush and build a bunker.
- And all year all he dreams about is his annual two-week holiday when he can escape and go bush.
- Coming up later, we travel to the Australian National University in Canberra, where artists go bush in search of inspiration and provoke heated debate while they're at it.
- The unwilling native porters they had brought from Rabaul either went bush or dropped from exhaustion.
- In a similar vein, the 1987 oils by Trevor Moffitt create an epic legend around West Coast farmer Stanley Graham, who in 1941 went bush and became New Zealand's first mass murderer.
- ‘To make big money in Australia you had to go bush,’ said John.
- When the Japanese occupied Salamaua as a base for their bombers to attack Port Moresby, Vial simply went bush, kept watch on the enemy airstrip, and radioed to Port Moresby advance warning of impending air-raids.
In or into an area of back country. men and women who worked out bush Example sentencesExamples - The main initiative, about once a fortnight, is taking kids who want to come out bush for one or two days.
- I haven't spent a lot of time out bush.
- My brother asked if I'd like to join him on a little trip out bush.
- One late evening I decided to camp out bush with the art co-ordinator.
- One of the main reasons I didn't want to live out bush was because I always thought that the best education for your kids is at school.
(originally of a convict) run away; go to live in the wild. the start of the war saw him take to the bush Example sentencesExamples - I got among bad companions and took to the bush.
- She took to the bush with the other Tasmanians.
- The women had been warned that rebels were coming to seize them and took to the bush.
- Knowing himself outcast, he took to the bush.
- He met the couple who took to the bush in an ageing van.
- Many youths have taken to the bush to avoid forced recruitment.
- He escaped from them and took to the bush.
- I used to spend a lot of time trying to keep up with the boys, who would often take to the bush.
- He was a keen bow-hunter and fisherman who would take to the bush for weeks on end.
- He takes to the bush after attracting the hostility of polite society.
Origin Middle English: from Old French bos, bosc, variants of bois 'wood', reinforced by Old Norse buski, of Germanic origin and related to Dutch bos and German Busch. The sense 'uncultivated country' is probably directly from Dutch bos. Rhymes Hindu Kush, kurus, mush, push, whoosh, woosh noun bʊʃbʊʃ British 1A metal lining for a round hole, especially one in which an axle revolves. Example sentencesExamples - Sporting rear bushes have been applied across the range, and variable electric power steering is now standard.
- A very communicative one too thanks those urethane bushes and the back axle bouncing up and down just a few inches from your backside.
- A bush of plastic material is provided which is intended to be embedded in the panel of semi-foamed or foamed synthetic resin.
- There was another machine which was used to orientate tiny metal bushes on a line so that they were all the same way up.
- 1.1 A bearing for a revolving shaft.
Example sentencesExamples - They have many, many parts and gears plus bearings and bushes.
- The alloy has many uses such as for bearings and bushes, pumps and pump fittings, valves, valve bodies and valve guides.
- I too have a slight creaking/squeaking coming from the rear of my car, and having read so many posts concerning bushes assumed that was the cause.
- It is used for gears, bearings and bushes for heavy loads and high duty with adequate lubrication, and for duty with hard steel shafts.
- With the wheel removed we can see the items that need to be removed in order to replace the trailing arm bushes.
2A sleeve that protects an electric cable where it passes through a panel. Example sentencesExamples - The cord should enter either through a hole in insulating material or through a properly secured insulating bush.
- A little red lead and oil applied to the crankshaft shows up the parts in the bush which require the scraping.
Origin Late 15th century: from Middle Dutch busse. nounbo͝oSHbʊʃ 1A shrub or clump of shrubs with stems of moderate length. the plant will develop into a dense bush Example sentencesExamples - Low shrubbery, especially berry bushes that also provide a food source, makes an effective shelter.
- This plant is one of the showiest dwarf evergreens, forming dense bushes of wiry stems.
- The whole park was surrounded by tall green trees and shrubs, and flower bushes of many kinds.
- Trees, shrubs, bushes and flowering plants were being planted on the graves.
- He led Jessica around trees, bushes, shrubs, and an empty cement pool that was at least twelve feet deep.
- My anvil pruning shears will prune the bushes and shrubs only.
- Mr Konemann planted bushes and shrubs to keep vandals and people with dogs out of the council-owned grounds.
- These color treatments enhance landscaping and blend naturally with trees, shrubs and bushes.
- I follow the paths in the dense undergrowth leading into bushes or spaces under trees hidden from view, particularly in the heavy growth of summer.
- The occupants of a house with a large garden found the body of former nurse Mrs Paines hidden in bushes and dense undergrowth at the far end of their property.
- Fruiting trees, bushes, and vines provide snacks for you and the birds and for your neighbors.
- They are more than just dense clumps of various kinds of trees, creepers, grasses, bushes, shrubs and twining creepers.
- They want to see the pretty pastel buildings contrast with flowering shrubs and bushes, and a pretty beach.
- He drove the party through the grounds, sometimes over clumps of bush and through shrubbery as he lost the way in his excitement.
- Planting prickly bushes or shrubs in borders and by fences will deter burglars thinking of climbing in your garden
- It exhibits every aspect of Dutch horticulture, from vegetables and fruit, to bulbs, flowers and plants to trees, bushes and shrubs.
- It is okay applied to orchard crops, vines and berry bushes and non-food-bearing shrubs and trees.
- The trees, bushes and shrubs are as green as anything.
- Ralier turned and saw Nyowan picking her way through a dense clump of bushes.
- She inhaled deeply and then proceeded to go about picking other flowers from other bushes and shrubs.
2the bush(especially in Australia, Africa, and Canada) wild or uncultivated country. they have to spend a night camping in the bush Example sentencesExamples - It's quite exciting, that mix of the city life and not having to go very far to get into the real sort of wild bush.
- On most indications that is a job description which wouldn't find many takers in the bush across northern Australia.
- He worked in the bush on the same forestry crew as me.
- Its popularity quickly spread, capturing the imagination of Australians both in the bush and throughout the colony.
- In Australian literature, the bush is usually more than a backdrop.
- I started to run along the path, thinking that I'd not help matters if I sprained my ankle but not wanting to get stuck in the bush when darkness fell.
- They go and plant some trees outside, while meanwhile they rip out all the bush in Western Australia and leave behind devastation.
- It is perfectly safe to camp in the bush but you should always ensure that your tent is properly closed when you go to sleep.
- You can crank up the thrill factor by sleeping under canvas, with the wild sounds of the bush pressing in through the walls of your tent.
- Two weeks on, Australia's bush blazes still show no sign of abating.
- Much of it is still largely untouched bush, rivers and wild coasts.
- This vegetation, particularly on the continental islands, shares many similarities with the bush of the Australian mainland.
- If we didn't the countryside and the bush wouldn't be so green and lush.
- The wilds of the Australian bush became a character in its own right, and it's hard to mess up such beautiful scenery.
- Like most country football clubs, deep in the sometimes foreboding bush of Australia, the combatants play hard on and off the field.
- Much easier to think of her sipping espressos in the cafes of Rome, than camping in the bush.
- The mission is to keep the bush roads of Central Australia serviceable throughout the year.
- Then I'd like to go back to South Africa, to the bush, to shoot wildlife.
- Nobody in regional Australia or the bush will ever trust the Nationals again.
- They had reserves of food, they travelled huge distances in search of food, work or charity, and above all they gathered wild food from the bush.
Synonyms wilds, remote areas, wilderness - 2.1 Vegetation growing in the bush.
the lowland country was covered in thick bush Example sentencesExamples - The greying greenery of the landscape shows that the past summer brought adequate rainfall, particularly for grass and small bush vegetation.
- The highway then drops down to pass through the Glenhope district and through bush alongside the Hope River to Kawatiri Junction.
- Thousands of hectares of bush and vegetation were destroyed.
- Today, it is largely covered in regenerated bush, with a thriving population of tuatara in hillside burrows.
- The mountain slopes that had been stripped were covered in bush and vines.
- For day after day south of Marzuk we saw nothing but stony wastes and sand dunes with never a blade of grass or bush to relieve the aridity.
- The country's vegetation varies with trees and thick bush in the south and near-desert conditions in the north.
- They require thick bush cover, water for drinking and bathing, and short grass to eat.
- You can walk down through the bush to the foreshore.
- It's quite stunning actually, a natural amphitheatre surrounded by hills and mountains covered in bush.
- Where these trees are growing in natural bush, the fleshy fruit is a favourite with both vervet monkeys and the rarer samango monkeys.
- So are many of these bush foods difficult to grow?
- The Bush Firewise guide provides a useful checklist for preparing your property for bush and grass fires.
- The day was a success because the bear stayed in the bush and timber, he said.
- Not requiring long grass or thick bush for cover, their methods are those of a courser, relying on speed and dogged endurance in the chase.
- When I visited the remains of my family home a couple of years ago, I found only ruins amid grass and bush.
- Failure of regular vegetation control caused Ocean Way to be partly covered by overgrowth of bush on the sea side of the road, causing a danger to road users.
3A luxuriant growth of thick hair or fur. a childish face with a bush of bright hair Example sentencesExamples - As we finally entered the ward, the first person I saw was a tall girl topped with a bush of thick dyed black curls.
- When the bus departed I saw that in the meantime, the old man had been joined by a little boy of very dark complexion, but with a bush of reddish hair.
- I peaked through the door and saw her bush of hair shake into a nervous nod, I saw that about two inches from her was Derek, holding an black gun right at her.
- He has the sparse hairs of a soul patch below his lip and a tiny bush of a beard on his chin.
- A pair of short tooth-like horns poked from a bush of curly hair that topped the faun's clever-looking face.
- 3.1vulgar slang A woman's pubic hair.
verbbo͝oSHbʊʃ [no object]Spread out into a thick clump. her hair bushed out like a halo Example sentencesExamples - The more water it receives, the more it will grow and bush out.
- She bushed a stray lock of long, coal-black hair behind one ear and extended her right hand.
- The cherry tree bushed out so much that it produced very little fruit, but the foliage itself had a pleasing abundance to it.
- She bushed up to almost twice her size, put her ears back flat against her skull, and hissed like an over-heated radiator.
- At one point I had to adjust the crotch of her leotard very carefully because some pubic hair was bushing out.
- He looks like a damn pirate, with his hair and beard bushing around his face like that.
- He stroked his beard, grinning to himself, his parents wouldn't recognise him with the fiery red beard already bushing aggressively from his jaw.
- Their tousled hair bushes out at the nape in the manner of Perugino.
- Then, I pulled my hair into a knot without bushing it and went downstairs.
- He ran his fingers through the gray bushing up from his scalp.
- ‘The silly thing is they have cut the crown of the trees so they won't grow tall but will bush out,’ Mr Kenzler said.
adjectivebo͝oSHbʊʃ informal Origin Middle English: from Old French bos, bosc, variants of bois ‘wood’, reinforced by Old Norse buski, of Germanic origin and related to Dutch bos and German Busch. The sense ‘uncultivated country’ is probably directly from Dutch bos. nounbo͝oSHbʊʃ British 1A metal lining for a round hole, especially one in which an axle revolves. Example sentencesExamples - A very communicative one too thanks those urethane bushes and the back axle bouncing up and down just a few inches from your backside.
- A bush of plastic material is provided which is intended to be embedded in the panel of semi-foamed or foamed synthetic resin.
- There was another machine which was used to orientate tiny metal bushes on a line so that they were all the same way up.
- Sporting rear bushes have been applied across the range, and variable electric power steering is now standard.
- 1.1 A bearing for a revolving shaft.
Example sentencesExamples - I too have a slight creaking/squeaking coming from the rear of my car, and having read so many posts concerning bushes assumed that was the cause.
- With the wheel removed we can see the items that need to be removed in order to replace the trailing arm bushes.
- The alloy has many uses such as for bearings and bushes, pumps and pump fittings, valves, valve bodies and valve guides.
- They have many, many parts and gears plus bearings and bushes.
- It is used for gears, bearings and bushes for heavy loads and high duty with adequate lubrication, and for duty with hard steel shafts.
2A sleeve that protects an electric cable where it passes through a panel. Example sentencesExamples - The cord should enter either through a hole in insulating material or through a properly secured insulating bush.
- A little red lead and oil applied to the crankshaft shows up the parts in the bush which require the scraping.
Origin Late 15th century: from Middle Dutch busse. |