/ bʊʃ; NAmE / noun
1.
[ C ] a plant that grows thickly with several hard stems coming up from the root :
a rose bush
holly bushes
—compare tree
2.
[ C ] a thing that looks like a bush, especially an area of thick hair or fur
3.
(often the bush ) [ U ] an area of wild land that has not been cleared, especially in Africa and Australia; in New Zealand an area where the forest has not been cleared
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IDIOMS
see beat verb , bird
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WORD ORIGIN
Middle English : from Old French bos , bosc , variants of bois wood, reinforced by Old Norse buski , of Germanic origin and related to Dutch bos and German Busch . The sense uncultivated country is probably directly from Dutch bos .