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bush1
- pronunciation:
- bUsh
- phrases:
- beat about the bush, beat around the bush
- features:
- Word Explorer
| part of speech: |
noun |
| definition 1: |
a low plant having many woody branches; shrub.
- synonyms:
- shrub, shrubbery
- similar words:
- growth, scrub, tree, underbrush, undergrowth
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| definition 2: |
a thick mass or growth of bushes.
- synonyms:
- brush, shrubbery, thicket
- similar words:
- bramble, brier, scrub, underbrush, undergrowth
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| definition 3: |
an area of uncultivated, mostly uninhabited land, usu. covered densely with bushes or other plants (usu. prec. by the).
- synonyms:
- wild
- similar words:
- brush, plain, prairie, range, scrub
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| related words: |
boondocks, jungle, moor, waste, wild |
| phrase: |
beat about the bush |
| phrase: |
beat around the bush |
| derivation: |
bushlike (adj.) |
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