bush

Betekenis (Engels)

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. 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) 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.
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.

Concepten

struik

heester

bosje

boompje

schaamhaar

bush

glijlager

naafbus

broesse

Synoniemen

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

physical body

clump of bushes

shade tree

arbuscle

fourre

wild plant

frutex

fallow field

dwarf tree

virgin land

juniper bush

old growth

bearing insert

uninhabited area

liner bushing

tropical scrub

dwarf thicket

backing

the sticks

backwoods

bark

bearing bush

bearing shell

boondocks

boonies

bramble

brass

briars

brushwood

bushes

bushland

cultivated plant

dessert

fair

fair to middling

fruit tree

garden

grass

hawthorn

hedge

hub

indifferent

leaf

liner

mallee

mediocre

middling

mine run

Uitgesproken als (IPA)

/bʊʃ/

Etymologie (Engels)

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”).
Cognate with West Frisian bosk (“forest”), Dutch bos (“forest”), German Busch (“bush”), Danish and Norwegian busk (“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. The sense 'pubic hair' was first attested in 1745.