bush
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noun- 1.
(horticulture) 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.
Đồng nghĩa: shrub
- 2.
A shrub cut off, or a shrublike branch of a tree.
bushes to support pea vines
- 3.
(archaic, dialectal)(archaic or dialectal and in placenames) A thicket, a small wood, or a tract of uncleared, woody land.
- 4.
(historical)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.
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(slang, vulgar)A person's pubic hair, especially a woman's.
Đồng nghĩa: bush, carpet, floss, fluff, forest, fur, fuzz, grass, growth, grove, lettuce, maidenhair, mound, muffin, nest, netherhair, pubes, rug, short and curlies, short hairs, shrubs, snatch, stuff, thatch
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(hunting) The tail, or brush, of a fox.
- 7.
(archaic)A tavern or wine merchant.
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(Australia, Canada, New Zealand, South Africa, countable, often, uncountable)(chiefly Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Canada, Alaska, often with “the”) Tracts of land covered in natural vegetation that are largely undeveloped and uncultivated, typically distinguished from absolute wilderness by implying a degree of marginal human engagement or proximity to settlement edges.
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(Canada, countable, uncountable)A wood lot or bluff on a farm.
Đồng nghĩa: bushlot
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(baseball) Amateurish behavior, short for bush league behavior
- 11.
A thick washer or hollow cylinder of metal.
- 12.
A mechanical attachment, usually a metallic socket with a screw thread, such as the mechanism by which a camera is attached to a tripod stand.
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verb- 1.
(intransitive)To branch thickly in the manner of a bush.
- 2.
To set bushes for; to support with bushes.
to bush peas
- 3.
To use a bush harrow on (land), for covering seeds sown; to harrow with a bush.
to bush a piece of land; to bush seeds into the ground
- 4.
To become bushy (often used with up).
I can tell when my cat is upset because he’ll bush up his tail.
- 5.
(transitive)To furnish with a bush or lining; to line.
to bush a pivot hole
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adverb- 1.
(Australia, not comparable)Towards the direction of the outback.
On hatching, the chicks scramble to the surface and head bush on their own.
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adjective- 1.
(colloquial)Not skilled; not professional; not major league.
They’re supposed to be a major league team, but so far they've been bush.
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thumb|right|A bush (woody plant) From Middle English bush, from Old English *busċ, *bysċ (copse, grove, scrub), from *busk, from Proto-Germanic *buskaz (bush, thicket), probably from Proto-Indo-European *bʰuH- (to grow). bosque. 2 cog Cognate with Busk, bosk, bos, Busch, Bësch, busk, buski, buske, بیشه.