bush

CEFRA2

/ˈbʊʃ/

noun

Türkçe translations

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In plain English

  1. 01

    noun

    A low plant with many branches.

  2. 02

    noun

    Wild land covered with plants and trees.

Examples

  • Stop beating around the bush and give it to me straight!

  • Don't beat around the bush.

At a glance

Sits at A2 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
1
Citations
5
Synonyms
5

Also pronounced

  • [ˈbɵʃ] ~ [ˈbəʃ]
  • [ˈbʊʃ] ~ [ˈbɵʃ] ~ [ˈbɨ̞ʃ]

Deep Dive

noun

Extra meanings

  1. A shrub cut off, or a shrublike branch of a tree.

  2. A thicket, a small wood, or a tract of uncleared, woody land.

  3. 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.

More examples

In context

  • to bush a piece of land; to bush seeds into the ground

  • bushes to support pea vines

  • to bush peas

Synonyms

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Origin

noun

From Middle English bush, from Old English *busċ, *bysċ (“copse, grove, scrub”, in placenames), from Proto-West Germanic *busk, from Proto-Germanic *buskaz (“bush, thicket”), probably from Proto-Indo-European *bʰuH- (“to grow”). Doublet of bosque. Cognates Cognate with Saterland Frisian Busk (“bush”), West Frisian bosk (“forest”), Dutch bos (“forest, wood”), German Busch (“bush, shrub; small forest, grove”), Luxembourgish Bësch (“forest, wood”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, and Norwegian Nynorsk busk (“bush, shrub”), Icelandic buski (“bush, shrub”), Swedish buske (“bush, shrub”), Persian بیشه (bêša/biše, “woods”). Latin and Romance forms (Latin boscus, Occitan bòsc, French bois, bûche and buis...