bush

Senso (Inglese)

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.
3. (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.
4. (slang, vulgar) A person's pubic hair, especially a woman's.
5. The tail, or brush, of a fox.

Verb

1. (intransitive) To branch thickly in the manner of a bush.
2. To set bushes for; to support with bushes.
3. To use a bush harrow on (land), for covering seeds sown; to harrow with a bush.
4. To become bushy (often used with up).

Adv

Towards the direction of the outback.

Adj

Not skilled; not professional; not major league.

Verb

To furnish with a bush or lining; to line.

Concetti

cespuglio

arbusto

boschetto

vegetale

boccola

pianta

🌱

albero

🌳

frutice

boscaglia

bossolo

bouquet

💐

manicotto

sottobosco

zazzera

pianta selvatica

albero piccolo

pianta coltivata

suffrutice

cespúglio

fruttice

bussola

🧭

figa

frasca

macchia

mazzo

alberello

albero da frutto

sinonimi

shrub

thicket

shrubbery

forest

outback

scrub

wilderness

tree

🌳

bushing

jungle

copse

wood

🪵

grove

brush

plant

🌱

chaparral

small tree

bush-league

coppice

countryside

plain

pubic hair

hinterland

savanna

clump

grassy place

scrubland

the bush

crotch hair

overgrown

muff

quill

sapling

savannah

second class

second-rate

shrubs

socket

stem

tea leaf

territory

uncultivated

veld

veldt

virgin forest

wooded area

woods

forest land

small brush

the wild

Traduzioni

buisson

brousse

Busch

Strauch

arbusto

arbuste

arbrisseau

struik

arbusto

θάμνος

mata

heester

maquis

arbust

Pronunciato come (IPA)

/bʊʃ/

Etimologia (Inglese)

Ereditato da inglese medio: bush

Ereditato da inglese antico: busċ

Affine frisone occidentale: bosk

Affine olandese: bos

Affine tedesco: Busch

Affine danese: -

Affine norvegese: busk

Affine svedese: buske

Affine persiano: بیشه

Affine latino: boscus

Affine occitano: bòsc

Affine francese: bois

Affine italiano: bosco

Affine spagnolo: bosque

Affine portoghese: bosque

In summary

From Middle English bush, from Old English busċ, *bysċ (“copse, grove, scrub”, in placenames), from Proto-West Germanic *busk, from Proto-Germanic *buskaz (“bush, thicket”), probably from Proto-Indo-European *bʰuH- (“to grow”). Doublet of bosque.
Cognates
Cognate with Saterland Frisian Busk (“bush”), West Frisian bosk (“forest”), Dutch bos, bosch (“forest, wood”), German Busch (“bush, shrub; small forest, grove”), Luxembourgish Bësch (“forest, wood”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål and Norwegian Nynorsk busk (“bush, shrub”), Icelandic buski (“bush, shrub”), Swedish buske (“bush, shrub”), Persian بیشه (bêša/biše, “woods”). Latin and Romance forms (Latin boscus, Occitan bòsc, French bois, bûche and buisson, Italian bosco and boscaglia, Spanish bosque, Portuguese bosque) derive from the Germanic.
Compare typologically Russian за́росли (zárosli) (akin to расти́ (rastí)). Also compare Russian быльё (bylʹjó) (distantly cognate via *bʰuH-).