bushes

Noun

bush (plural bushes)

1. A woody plant distinguished from a tree by its multiple stems and lower height, being usually less than six metres tall; a horticultural rather than strictly botanical category.
   • I stumbled along through the young pines and huckleberry bushes. Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path that, I cal'lated, might lead to the road I was hunting for. It twisted and turned, and, the first thing I knew, made a sudden bend around a bunch of bayberry scrub and opened out into a big...1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter I, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC, page 18

   Synonyms:

   shrub

2. A shrub cut off, or a shrublike branch of a tree.
   • bushes to support pea vines
3. (archaic, dialectal) A thicket, a small wood, or a tract of uncleared, woody land.
   • We saw a bush of wood, and in the heart of it a little open space.1894, S. R. Crockett, The Raiders
4. (historical) A shrub or branch, properly, a branch of ivy (sacred to Bacchus), hung out at vintners' doors, or as a tavern sign; hence, a tavern sign, and symbolically, the tavern itself.
   • If it be true, that good wine needs no buſh, 'tis true, that a good play needes no Epilogue.c. 1598–1600 (date written), William Shakespeare, “As You Like It”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount...
5. (slang, vulgar) A person's pubic hair, especially a woman's.
   • As he ſtood on one ſide for a minute or ſo, unbuttoning his waſte-coat, and breeches, her fat brawny thighs hung down, and the whole greaſy landſkip lay fairly open to my view: a wide open-mouth'd gap, overſhaded with a grizzly buſh, ſeemed held out like a beggar's wallet for its'^([sic]) proviſion.1749, [John Cleland], “[Letter the First]”, in Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure [Fanny Hill], volume I, London: […] [Thomas Parker] for G. Fenton [i.e., Fenton and Ralph Griffiths] […], →OCLC, page 65

   Synonyms:

   carpet, floss, fluff, forest, fur, fuzz, grass, growth, grove, lettuce

6. The tail, or brush, of a fox.

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