adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
bushy (= with long thick fur )
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My cat has a soft bushy tail.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
eyebrow
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They were hard pin-points of slate blue beneath bushy eyebrows .
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She was a young nun with a deeply pocked face and bushy eyebrows that massed over the bridge of her large nose.
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His long bushy eyebrows , mingling with his coarse black hairline, made him appear to have no forehead at all.
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And those bushy eyebrows that resembled dark clouds on his horizon.-How come?
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His hair was grey but with a trace of red hair remaining in his bushy eyebrows .
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The black beard, for example, and the overly bushy eyebrows .
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With his dome, bushy eyebrows and wide if not always convincing smile, he was a commanding figure.
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The outward tips of his bushy eyebrows were tilted upwards slightly, giving him a demonic appearance.
plant
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The best bushy plant is Egeria or Elodea densa.
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Today, 25 bushy plants produce the earthy feel of a garden.
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Territorials surround themselves with briefcases, calendars, and large bushy plants .
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To obtain good bushy plants , keep pinching out the tips.
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The bushy plants develop from fleshy, stout rootstock.
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If a sand and clay mixture is provided it will produce a dense, bushy plant developing a mass of trailing rootstock.
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The long, wiry rootstock produces numerous shoots, which develop bushy plants .
tail
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No sign of squirrels at ground level, not a print, not a glimpse of a bushy tail .
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All of them give you fair warning of their character by deliberately making themselves conspicuous and waving their bushy tails .
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They're rodents - like rats, only with bushy tails .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
bright-eyed and bushy-tailed
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Christie was there, bright-eyed and bushy-tailed, at 6:30 a.m.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And those bushy eyebrows that resembled dark clouds on his horizon.-How come?
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Any dry fly that looks bushy and edible will do.
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He was lanky, pale and serious, with dark, bushy sideburns and a handsome Che Guevara mustache.
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His hair was longer in those days but then my beard was bushier so I suppose we were about equally hirsute.
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Territorials surround themselves with briefcases, calendars, and large bushy plants.
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The outward tips of his bushy eyebrows were tilted upwards slightly, giving him a demonic appearance.
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To obtain good bushy plants, keep pinching out the tips.