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bushy1 /ˈbʊʃi /adjective (bushier, bushiest)1Growing thickly: a dense, bushy plant his eyebrows were thick and bushy...- Grass is a plant that grows thick and bushy when healthy.
- Anyway, we have this drive from our place to the street, and along it grows this bushy hedge thing.
- Lablab comes in two main forms: a bushy plant, or one which grows like a vine.
Synonyms thick, shaggy, unruly, fuzzy, rough, bristling, bristly, fluffy, woolly, luxuriant, exuberant, spreading informal jungly 2Covered with bush or bushes: bushy desert areas...- I stare down into valley, whose steep contours are covered with bushy, broccoli-like clumps of kiewe (mesquite).
- What a jaguar needs to survive in the rainforest of Belize, for instance, may be different from what it needs in the dry, open, bushy Sonora area of Mexico.
- My motor vehicle had a puncture at the corner of Pell Street and Beaconhurst Drive and as it was getting dark I was extremely worried as the area is bushy and unsafe.
Derivatives bushily adverb ...- It is hard to describe something which is bushily recursive in a linear way - like language.
- There are numerous stems, which are bushily branched with flowering branches at the top.
- This will then regrow more bushily so that you end up with a square, thicker top to the hedge when trimmed at the final height.
bushiness /ˈbʊʃɪnəs / noun ...- From a boyhood spent hunting and climbing in southern Idaho, Petzoldt grew into a bearish man with enormous flat feet and eyebrows of legendary bushiness.
- Alongside a bony-headed, loose-lipped camel, a goat stands to attention, the shine of its wiry bushiness painted with patient genius, lock by tawny lock.
- This tender perennial matures to 4-5 feet; pinch leggy shoots to encourage bushiness.
Rhymes cushy, pushy bushy2 /ˈbʊʃi /(also bushie) noun (plural bushies) Australian / NZ informalA person who lives in the bush (as distinct from in a town), typically regarded as uncultured or unsophisticated: cultural wonders that bushies like me were despised for not having...- Now I find more than a few Brisbane sophisticates similarly look down on culturally deprived bushies such as myself.
- Long gone are the days when four-wheel drive owners were mainly farmers, miners or other bushies.
- First as a bushie, I'm concerned about the state of play of rural Australia and the difficulties there are there, in contrast to those conditions that apply in the city.
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