1. s. (horticulture) 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. s. (slang) A person's pubic hair, especially a woman's; loosely, a woman's vulva.
3. s. A shrub cut off, or a shrublike branch of a tree.
bushes to support pea vines
4. s. (historical) 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. s. (hunting) The tail, or brush, of a fox.
6. v. (intransitive) To branch thickly in the manner of a bush.
7. v. To set bushes for; to support with bushes.
to bush peas
8. v. To use a bush harrow on (land), for covering seeds sown; to harrow with a bush.
to bush a piece of land; to bush seeds into the ground
9. s. (archaic) A tavern or wine merchant.
10. s. (often with "the") Rural areas, typically remote, wooded, undeveloped and uncultivated.
11. s. (Australia) The countryside area of Australia that is less arid and less remote than the outback; loosely, areas of natural flora even within conurbati
12. s. (New Zealand) An area of New Zealand covered in forest, especially native forest.
13. s. (Canadian) The wild forested areas of Canada; upcountry.
14. s. (Canadian) A woodlot or bluff on a farm.
15. adv. (Australia) Towards the direction of the outback.
On hatching, the chicks scramble to the surface and head bush on their own.
16. adj. (colloquial) Not skilled; not professional; not major league.
They're supposed to be a major league team, but so far they've been bush.
17. s. (baseball) Amateurish behavior, short for "bush league behavior".
18. s. A thick washer or hollow cylinder of metal.
19. s. 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.
20. s. A piece of copper, screwed into a gun, through which the venthole is bored.
1. s. A woody plant smaller than a tree, and usually with several stems from the same base.
2. v. (obsolete) To lop; to prune.
3. v. (transitive, Kenyan English) To mispronounce a word by replacing its consonant sound(s) with another or others of a similar place of articulation.
For example, (IPAchar, /ʃɹʌb/) → IPAchar, /sɹʌb/
4. s. A liquor composed of vegetable acid, fruit juice (especially lemon), sugar, sometimes vinegar, and a small amount of spirit as a preservative. Modern shrub is usually non-alcoholic, but in earlier tim
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