Transcription
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- US Pronunciation
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- [boo sh]
- /bʊʃ/
- /bʊʃ/
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- US Pronunciation
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- [boo sh]
- /bʊʃ/
Definitions of bush word
- countable noun bush A bush is a large plant which is smaller than a tree and has a lot of branches. 3
- singular noun bush The wild, uncultivated parts of some hot countries are referred to as the bush. 3
- noun bush a dense woody plant, smaller than a tree, with many branches arising from the lower part of the stem; shrub 3
- noun bush a dense cluster of such shrubs; thicket 3
- noun bush something resembling a bush, esp in density 3
- noun bush an area of land on a farm on which timber is grown and cut 3
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Origin of bush
First appearance:
before 1000 One of the 6% oldest English words
before 1000; Middle English busshe, Old English busc (in place-names); cognate with Dutch bos wood, German Busch, Old Norse buskr bush
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Parts of speech for Bush
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conjunction
determiner
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bush popularity
A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 98% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".
bush usage trend in Literature
This diagram is provided by Google Ngram ViewerSynonyms for bush
noun bush
- shrubbery — a planting of shrubs: He hit the croquet ball into the shrubbery.
- plant — any member of the kingdom Plantae, comprising multicellular organisms that typically produce their own food from inorganic matter by the process of photosynthesis and that have more or less rigid cell walls containing cellulose, including vascular plants, mosses, liverworts, and hornworts: some classification schemes may include fungi, algae, bacteria, blue-green algae, and certain single-celled eukaryotes that have plantlike qualities, as rigid cell walls or photosynthesis.
- hinterland — Often, hinterlands. the remote or less developed parts of a country; back country: The hinterlands are usually much more picturesque than the urban areas.
- scrub — to rub hard with a brush, cloth, etc., or against a rough surface in washing.
- wilderness — a wooded area in NE Virginia: several battles fought here in 1864 between armies of Grant and Lee.
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