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Plural of bush

regular plural

The plural of bush is bushes.

Forms of bush

Singularbush /ˈbʊʃ/
Pluralbushes /ˈbʊʃɪz/
Countablecountable

Bushes in a sentence

  • I stumbled along through the young pines and huckleberry bushes.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
  • bushes to support pea vines
  • He survived the jump out the window because the bushes below broke his fall.From the entry break
  • We had a good haul of gooseberries from our bushes this year.From the entry gooseberry
  • That birdbrain just drove right through three rows of traffic cones and into the bushes.From the entry birdbrain

Meaning of bush

  1. noun 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.
  2. noun A shrub cut off, or a shrublike branch of a tree.
  3. noun A thicket, a small wood, or a tract of uncleared, woody land.

Full definition of bush

Questions about the plural of bush

What is the plural of bush?
The plural of bush is bushes.
Is bush countable?
Bush is a countable noun.

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: bush (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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