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Synonyms for bushes

Grammar : Noun
Spell : boo sh
Phonetic Transcription : bʊʃ

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Définition of bushes

Origin :
  • "many-stemmed woody plant," Old English bysc, from West Germanic *busk "bush, thicket" (cf. Old Saxon and Old High German busc, Dutch bosch, bos, German Busch). Influenced by or combined with cognate words from Scandinavian (cf. Old Norse buskr, Danish busk, but this might be from West Germanic) and Old French (busche "firewood," apparently of Frankish origin), and also perhaps Anglo-Latin bosca "firewood," from Medieval Latin busca (whence Italian bosco, Spanish bosque, French bois), which apparently also was borrowed from West Germanic; cf. Boise.
  • In British American colonies, applied from 1650s to the uncleared districts, hence "country," as opposed to town (1780); probably originally from Dutch bosch in the same sense, because it seems to appear first in English in former Dutch colonies. Meaning "pubic hair" (especially of a woman) is from 1745. To beat the bushes (mid-15c.) is a way to rouse birds so that they fly into the net which others are holding, which originally was the same thing as beating around the bush (see beat (v.)).
  • noun shrubs; woodland
Example sentences :
  • Lined them with stakes and bushes to keep them from filling in.
  • Extract from : « Explorations in Australia » by John Forrest
  • She had taken off her hat; the wind and the bushes had roughened her hair.
  • Extract from : « Her Father's Daughter » by Gene Stratton-Porter
  • Just how Linda recrossed the bushes and reached Katy she did not know.
  • Extract from : « Her Father's Daughter » by Gene Stratton-Porter
  • Then screened by the bushes, she could have reached out and touched Oka Sayye.
  • Extract from : « Her Father's Daughter » by Gene Stratton-Porter
  • No break occurred, and presently I was stopped by a dense thicket of bushes.
  • Extract from : « Green Mansions » by W. H. Hudson
  • Why, that's only a bird, Jim—I saw it—it's gone into the bushes.
  • Extract from : « The Underdog » by F. Hopkinson Smith
  • I pointed into the bushes with signs of "Hurrah, it's Wahb."
  • Extract from : « A Woman Tenderfoot » by Grace Gallatin Seton-Thompson
  • I got there just in time to see him vanishing in the bushes.
  • Extract from : « The Rock of Chickamauga » by Joseph A. Altsheler
  • But when he was a half-mile on the other side he drew into a dense cluster of bushes and waited.
  • Extract from : « The Rock of Chickamauga » by Joseph A. Altsheler
  • So he did nothing, but sat quietly on his horse among the bushes.
  • Extract from : « The Rock of Chickamauga » by Joseph A. Altsheler
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