bushes
/ˈbʊʃɪz/ · noun
Meaning
- 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.
- A shrub cut off, or a shrublike branch of a tree.
- 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.
- A person's pubic hair, especially a woman's.
- The tail, or brush, of a fox.
- A tavern or wine merchant.
- (often with "the") Rural areas, typically remote, wooded, undeveloped and uncultivated.
- A woodlot or bluff on a farm.
- A thick washer or hollow cylinder of metal.
- A mechanical attachment, usually a metallic socket with a screw thread, such as the mechanism by which a camera is attached to a tripod stand.
- A piece of copper, screwed into a gun, through which the venthole is bored.
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