BUSH

/bƊƃ/
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Definition

/bƊƃ/
noun
  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.
  2. A shrub cut off, or a shrublike branch of a tree.
    “bushes to support pea vines”
  3. 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.
  4. A person's pubic hair, especially a woman's.
  5. The tail, or brush, of a fox.
verb
  1. To branch thickly in the manner of a bush.
  2. To set bushes for; to support with bushes.
    “to bush peas”
  3. To use a bush harrow on (land), for covering seeds sown; to harrow with a bush.
    “to bush a piece of land; to bush seeds into the ground”

Source: Wiktionary

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