bush

Plural: bushes

Noun

• a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems
• a large wilderness area
• dense vegetation consisting of stunted trees or bushes
• 43rd President of the United States; son of George Herbert Walker Bush (born in 1946)
• United States electrical engineer who designed an early analogue computer and who led the scientific program of the United States during World War II (1890-1974)
• vice president under Reagan and 41st President of the United States (born in 1924)
• hair growing in the pubic area
• 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.
• 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.
• A tavern or wine merchant.
• Tracts of land covered in natural vegetation that are largely undeveloped and uncultivated.
• Tracts of land covered in natural vegetation that are largely undeveloped and uncultivated.
• The countryside area of Australia that is less arid and less remote than the outback; loosely, areas of natural flora even within conurbations.
• Tracts of land covered in natural vegetation that are largely undeveloped and uncultivated.
• An area of New Zealand covered in forest, especially native forest.
• Tracts of land covered in natural vegetation that are largely undeveloped and uncultivated.
• The wild forested areas of Canada; upcountry.
• A wood lot or bluff on a farm.
• Amateurish behavior, short for bush league behavior
• A thick washer or hollow cylinder of metal.
• 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.
• A piece of copper, screwed into a gun, through which the venthole is bored.

Verb

Verb Forms: bushed, bushing, bushes

• To cover with bushes or dense foliage; to grow thickly.
• provide with a bushing
• To branch thickly in the manner of a bush.
• To set bushes for; to support with bushes.
• To use a bush harrow on (land), for covering seeds sown; to harrow with a bush.
• To become bushy (often used with up).
• To furnish with a bush or lining; to line.

Adjective Satellite

• not of the highest quality or sophistication

Adv

• Towards the direction of the outback.

Adj

• Not skilled; not professional; not major league.

Examples

• bushes to support pea vines
• He tried to BUSH the board with small words, hoping to block his opponent’s progress.
• I can tell when my cat is upset because he’ll bush up his tail.
• On hatching, the chicks scramble to the surface and head bush on their own.
• They’re supposed to be a major league team, but so far they've been bush.
• to bush a piece of land; to bush seeds into the ground
• to bush a pivot hole
• to bush peas

Synonyms

bush-league, chaparral, crotch hair, Dubya, Dubyuh, George Bush, George H.W. Bush, George Herbert Walker Bush, George W. Bush, George Walker Bush, President Bush, President George W. Bush, pubic hair, scrub, shrub, Vannevar Bush, bush, bushing, bushlot, carpet, floss, fluff, forest, fur, fuzz, grass, grove, growth, lettuce, maidenhair, mound, muffin, nest, netherhair, pubes, rug, short and curlies, short hairs, shrubs, snatch, stuff, thatch

Related Words

ambush, backblock, bouquet, bushman, outback, reducing bush

Anagrams of bush