Bush Bʊʃ Area Noun Rose/Holly Hiding Side Lane

• a rose/holly bush
• she was hiding in the bushes at the side of the lane.
• children are taught from an early age how to survive in the bush.
• they went out into the bush.

bush

1. a plant that grows thickly with several hard stems coming up from the root
• SEE ALSO butterfly bush
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/butterfly-bush
• a rose/holly bush
• She was hiding in the bushes at the side of the lane.

Extra Examples

• a large clump of rose bushes
• to prune the rose bushes
2. a thing that looks like a bush, especially an area of thick hair or fur
3. an area of wild land that has not been cleared, especially in Africa and Australia; in New Zealand an area where the forest has not been cleared
• Children are taught from an early age how to survive in the bush.
• They went out into the bush.
• hills that have become a wasteland after the removal of native bush
4. to talk about something for a long time without coming to the main point
• Stop beating about the bush and tell me what you want.
5. it is better to keep something that you already have than to risk losing it by trying to get much more

Word Origin

• Middle English: from Old French bos, bosc, variants of bois ‘wood’, reinforced by Old Norse buski, of Germanic origin and related to Dutch bos and German Busch. The sense ‘uncultivated country’ is probably directly from Dutch bos.