EGAVE

bush

About 15.22 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun 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.
  2. noun A shrub cut off, or a shrublike branch of a tree.
    bushes to support pea vines
  3. noun A thicket, a small wood, or a tract of uncleared, woody land.
  4. noun 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.
  5. noun A person's pubic hair, especially a woman's. .mw-parser-output .defdate{font-size:smaller}
  6. noun The tail, or brush, of a fox.
  7. verb To branch thickly in the manner of a bush.
  8. verb To set bushes for; to support with bushes.
    to bush peas

Similar words

shrub chaparral pubic hair scrub george bush george herbert walker bush undergrowth timber woods thicket

Often followed by

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Word family

Bush George Bush George H. W. Bush George Herbert Walker Bush George W. Bush George Walker Bush Vannevar Bush bushed bushes bushing

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