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bush·y
(bo͝osh′ē)adj. bush·i·er, bush·i·est
1. Consisting of or covered with bushes: bushy plants; a bushy area.
2. Thick and shaggy: a bushy head of hair.
bush′i·ly adv.
bush′i·ness n.
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bushy
(ˈbʊʃɪ)adj, bushier or bushiest
1. (Horticulture) covered or overgrown with bushes
2. thick and shaggy: bushy eyebrows.
ˈbushily adv
ˈbushiness n
bushy
(ˈbʊʃɪ) orbushie
n, pl bushies
1. a person who lives in the bush
2. an unsophisticated uncouth person
3. a member of a bush fire brigade
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bush•y
(ˈbʊʃ i)adj. bush•i•er, bush•i•est.
1. resembling a bush; thick and shaggy: bushy whiskers.
2. full of or overgrown with bushes.
[1350–1400]
bush′i•ly, adv.
bush′i•ness, n.
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| Adj. | 1. | bushy - used of hair; thick and poorly groomed; "bushy locks"; "a shaggy beard" ungroomed - not neat and smart in appearance; "he was wrinkled and ungroomed, with a two-day beard"; "ungroomed hair" |
| 2. | bushy - resembling a bush in being thickly branched and spreading branchy - having many branches; "a branchy tree trunk" |
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bushy
adjective thick, bristling, spreading, rough, stiff, fuzzy, fluffy, unruly, shaggy, wiry, luxuriant, bristly a bushy tail
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Translations
مُدغل، كَثيفُ الحاجِبَيْن
huňatýhustý
busket
loîinn
sık ve gür
bushy
[ˈbʊʃɪ] ADJ (bushier (compar) (bushiest (superl))) [plant] → parecido a un arbusto; [ground] → lleno de arbustos; [hair] → espeso, tupido; [beard, eyebrows] → pobladoCollins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005
Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005
bushy
adj (+er) → buschig
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bushy
[ˈbʊʃɪ] adj (plant, tail, beard) → folto/a; (eyebrows) → irsuto/aCollins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995
bush
(buʃ) noun1. a growing thing between a tree and a plant in size. a rose bush.
2. (in Australia, Africa etc) wild uncultivated country.
ˈbushy adjective thick and spreading. bushy eyebrows; a bushy tail.
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