bunch

Meaning

1. A group of similar things, either growing together, or in a cluster or clump, usually fastened together.
2. The illegitimate supplying of laboratory animals that are act
3. The peloton; the main group of riders formed during a race.
4. An informal body of friends.
5. (informal) A considerable amount.
6. (informal) An unmentioned amount; a number.
7. A group of logs tied together for skidding.
8. An unusual concentration of ore in a lode or a small, discontinuous occurrence or patch of ore in the wallrock.
9. The reserve yarn on the filling bobbin to allow continuous weaving between the time of indication from the midget feeler until a new bobbin is put in the shuttle.
10. An unfinished cigar, before the wrapper leaf is added.
11. A protuberance; a hunch; a knob or lump; a hump.
12. (obsolete) A seventeenth-century unit of Rhenish glass, 60 of which constitute a way or web.

cluster

bundle

cluster of fruit

nagel wing

small pile

bunch together

small piece

group of people

tie together

string of fish

a lock of hair

murmuration

bonding agent

beam-forming

beam convergence

twisted strip

beam-confining

small bundle

hirsel

cete

conjugation agent

composite fruit

concentration of beam

tons of

bunch of bananas

corsage

erst

Frequency

Pronounced as (IPA)

/bʌntʃ/

From Middle English bunche, bonche (“hump, swelling”), of uncertain origin. Perhaps a variant of *bunge (compare dialectal bung (“heap, grape bunch”)), from Proto-Germanic *bunkō, *bunkô, *bungǭ (“heap, crowd”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰenǵʰ-, *bʰéng̑ʰus (“thick, dense, fat”). Cognates include Saterland Frisian Bunke (“bone”), West Frisian bonke (“bone, lump, bump”), Dutch bonk (“lump, bone”), Low German Bunk (“bone”), German Bunge (“tuber”), Danish bunke (“heap, pile”), Faroese bunki (“heap, pile”); Hittite [Term?] (/⁠panku⁠/, “total, entire”), Tocharian B pkante (“volume, fatness”), Lithuanian búožė (“knob”), Ancient Greek παχύς (pakhús, “thick”), Sanskrit बहु (bahú, “thick; much”)). Alternatively, perhaps from a variant or diminutive of bump (compare hump/hunch, lump/lunch, etc.); or from dialectal Old French bonge (“bundle”) (compare French bongeau, bonjeau, bonjot), from West Flemish bondje, diminutive of West Flemish bond (“bundle”).