bushes

nounshrubs; woodland

Relevance ranks synonyms and suggests the best matches based on how closely a synonym’s sense matches the sense you selected.

Relevance

A-Z

Length

Synonyms for bushes

noun shrubs; woodland

More words related to bushes

minor league

noun. professional sports team not belonging to the major league

Word Origin & History

"many-stemmed woody plant," Old English bysc, from West Germanic *busk "bush, thicket" (cf. Old Saxon and Old High German busc, Dutch bosch, bos, German Busch). Influenced by or combined with cognate words from Scandinavian (cf. Old Norse buskr, Danish busk, but this might be from West Germanic) and Old French (busche "firewood," apparently of Frankish origin), and also perhaps Anglo-Latin bosca "firewood," from Medieval Latin busca (whence Italian bosco, Spanish bosque, French bois), which apparently also was borrowed from West Germanic; cf. Boise.

In British American colonies, applied from 1650s to the uncleared districts, hence "country," as opposed to town (1780); probably originally from Dutch bosch in the same sense, because it seems to appear first in English in former Dutch colonies. Meaning "pubic hair" (especially of a woman) is from 1745. To beat the bushes (mid-15c.) is a way to rouse birds so that they fly into the net which others are holding, which originally was the same thing as beating around the bush (see beat (v.)).

Example Sentences for bushes

Lined them with stakes and bushes to keep them from filling in.

She had taken off her hat; the wind and the bushes had roughened her hair.

Just how Linda recrossed the bushes and reached Katy she did not know.

Then screened by the bushes, she could have reached out and touched Oka Sayye.

No break occurred, and presently I was stopped by a dense thicket of bushes.

Why, that's only a bird, Jim—I saw it—it's gone into the bushes.

I pointed into the bushes with signs of "Hurrah, it's Wahb."

I got there just in time to see him vanishing in the bushes.

But when he was a half-mile on the other side he drew into a dense cluster of bushes and waited.

So he did nothing, but sat quietly on his horse among the bushes.

bushes

Synonyms .css-1u0ksf7{color:#d9d9d9;}for bushes

More words related to bushes

.css-1unrqcp{color:inherit;-webkit-text-decoration:none;text-decoration:none;}minor league

shrubbery

Synonyms for bushes

minor league