bush
- noun
- /bʊʃ/
- Australian
- In the past, the namwali were taken to the bush for the last stage of the ceremony.
- live in the bush
- camp in the bush
- village and bush
They love being in this thorny Bush, just very isolated.
- They love being in this thorny Bush, just very isolated.
- No, the Bush, the Bush, the Outback.
- Like that's the way we grew out of the Bush and developed and evolved.
Examples
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Couple of weeks in the bush, you and your boy, you'll both love it.
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The coastal region was largely covered with tracts of bush unfit for people or cattle.
Academic text (1999) -
Something moved in that bush.
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The men have spent many days in the bush constructing them for this particular night.
Academic text (1993) -
I ended up in the treetops, spent the night in the bush, and walked out.
Fiction book (1990) -
Their animals wandered off into the bush and died, until only one sheep was left.
Academic text (1990) -
A week later, he crawls out of the bush, gets patched up and disappears.
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Possessed, the initiates (yabunga) run into the bush and uproot trees with their bare hands.
Academic text (2008) -
When she stepped through the bushes, Lirrel smelled the faint odor of Oran soil.
Fiction book (1991) -
During our safari, we spotted a lion lurking in the tall bush.
Synonyms
A thick group of small trees and bushes
Low, thick bushes and small trees that grow on dry land
A dense area of low trees and bushes in dry places like California
A wild area with bushes and small trees, often in Australia
An area of land covered with short bushes and grasses that is hard to farm
Low bushes or plants that grow close to the ground in dry areas
An area covered mostly with low bushes and small woody plants
An area of open grass with some bushes and trees in southern Africa
Compounds
The United States government led by President George W. Bush from 2001 to 2009
The United States government led by President George H. W. Bush from 1989 to 1993
- South African
A small animal from Africa that is active at night with big eyes and a long tail
A desert shrub with sticky leaves that have a strong smell and small yellow flowers
- Slang
A low-level baseball league often used to describe something of lower quality
- Specialized
A bush that loses its leaves in winter with fragrant leaves, yellow flowers, and red or yellow berries
- South African
A small bright African bird with a black face and a musical song
- US
A scented desert shrub with brittle stems, yellow flowers, and a sticky resin used in incense
- Specialized
A plant with white flowers that gives off a gas that can burn in hot weather
A bushy shrub with clusters of yellow or greenish flowers that attract butterflies
- UK
A loose jacket like a shirt with four pockets and a belt that people wear in hot places
A small garden plant with deep yellow flowers that stays compact and blooms all summer
- Specialized
A plant with leaves in three parts and clusters of yellow or purple flowers
- UK
A European climbing plant with thin stems and purple flowers often growing as a weed in hedges
- South African
A small tree from South Africa with yellow flowers that grows near streams
- US
An evergreen shrub also called mountain laurel, with glossy leaves and white or pink flowers that grows in North America
- Australian
An Australian small tree or bush with bright red flowers used as a Christmas decoration
- US
An evergreen bush with small clustered flowers that spreads in the southwestern United States
A North American shrub with leaves in three parts that makes bright red berries
- Australian
An evergreen shrub with many daisy-like flowers and sometimes fragrant leaves grown in gardens
A low bush that grows along the ground and makes small dark berries like blackberries
A short upright plant that grows large glossy purple eggplants used as a vegetable
A North American shrub or small tree with three-lobed leaves and clusters of red berries
A bush with white flowers and bright red berries often grown in gardens
- US
An evergreen shrub with shiny leaves and pink flower clusters that grows in the southeastern United States
- US
An evergreen shrub with bright orange, trumpet-shaped flowers grown for gardens or as a houseplant
- US
A small bushy tree from the southeastern United States that has many white flowers
- New Zealand
A thick-stemmed, thorny shrub that trails over and through other plants in New Zealand forests
An evergreen South American shrub with bright orange, trumpet-shaped flowers grown for decoration
- Specialized
A small bush with soft, hairy twigs that grows in the eastern United States
- US
A thorny plant from tropical America with yellow fragrant flowers used to make perfume
- Specialized
A shrub from western North America with soft white leaves and yellow flowers that turn red-purple
How Wild
Surface Forms
Etymology
Bush originally meant a 'thicket' or area of wild plants, the same idea behind brush. That's why people call wild, uncultivated countryside 'the bush'—a place full of dense plants.