BUSH


Meaning of BUSH in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ bʊʃ ]

( bushes)

1.

A bush is a large plant which is smaller than a tree and has a lot of branches.

Trees and bushes grew down to the water’s edge.

= shrub

N-COUNT

2.

The wild, uncultivated parts of some hot countries are referred to as the bush .

They walked through the dense Mozambican bush for thirty six hours...

N-SING : usu the N , oft N n

3.

If you tell someone not to beat about the bush , you mean that you want them to tell you something immediately and quickly, rather than in a complicated, indirect way.

Stop beating about the bush. What’s he done?

PHRASE : V inflects , usu with brd-neg

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