bushes

Meaning of bushes

plural noun
  1. a shrub or clump of shrubs with stems of moderate length.
    a rose bush
  2. (especially in Australia and Africa) wild or uncultivated country.
    they have to spend a night camping in the bush
  3. a luxuriant growth of thick hair or fur.
    a childish face with a bush of bright hair
verb, 3rd person present
  1. spread out into a thick clump.
    her hair bushed out like a halo

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 .

plural noun
  1. a metal lining for a round hole, especially one in which an axle revolves.
  2. a sleeve that protects an electric cable where it passes through a panel.

late 15th century: from Middle Dutch busse .

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Hyphenation of bushes

bushes

  • It consists of 1 syllables and 6 chars.
  • bushes is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable

bushes synonyms

Meaning a woody plant which is smaller than a tree and has several main stems arising at or near the ground:

shrub

Meaning a dense growth of shrubs and other plants, especially under trees in woodland:

undergrowth

Meaning an area in a garden planted with shrubs:

shrubbery

Meaning a fence or boundary formed by closely growing bushes or shrubs:

hedge

Meaning a dense group of bushes or trees:

thicket

Meaning a remote uninhabited or sparsely inhabited area:

wilds

Meaning an uncultivated, uninhabited, and inhospitable region:

wilderness

Words that rhyme with bushes

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