bushˈ-fruit noun

A fruit growing on a bush, such as gooseberry or raspberry

bushˈ-harrow noun

A light harrow for covering grass-seeds, formed of a barred frame interwoven with bushes or branches

bushˈ-house noun (Aust)

A house or hut in the bush or in a garden

bush jacket see bush shirt below.

bush'land noun (Aust)

The outback

bushˈ-lawyer noun (Aust)

1. Any of several prickly climbing plants, esp of the genus Calamus
2. Someone who pretends a knowledge of law

bushˈman noun

1. A settler or traveller in the bush (Aust and NZ)
2. (with cap) another name for San

bushˈmanship noun

Bushcraft

bushˈmaster noun

A venomous S American snake (Lachesis mutus)

bushˈmeat noun

The meat of wild animals, esp apes, eaten as food

bush pig noun

A wild pig of S Africa and Madagascar (also called red river hog)

bush pilot noun

An airline pilot operating over uninhabited country

bushˈranger noun

1. A lawless person, often an escaped criminal, who takes to the bush and lives by robbery (Aust)
2. A backwoodsman
3. A rapacious person

bushˈ-rope noun

A liana

bush shirt or bush jacket noun

A cotton, etc garment with four patch pockets and a belt

bushˈ-shrike noun

1. Any bird belonging to certain genera of an African subfamily of the shrikes, applied collectively to the subfamily as a whole
2. An ant thrush (Formicariidae family)

bush sickness noun (Aust and NZ)

A disease of cattle, sheep and goats, caused by a mineral deficiency in pastures

bush tea noun

Tea made from the leaves of various S African shrubs

bush telegraph noun

1. The rapid transmission of news among primitive communities by drum-beating, etc
2. Gossip, rumour (facetious)

bushˈtit noun

A small long-tailed tit of W America, which builds a large hanging nest

bush tucker noun (Aust)

Food available for eating in the bush, such as wild plants, animals and insects

bushˈveld or boschˈveld /bosˈ/ noun

Veld made up largely of woodland

bushˈwalk intransitive verb (Aust)

To walk or hike through the bush as a leisure activity (also noun)

bushˈwalker noun

bushˈwalking noun

bushˈwhack intransitive verb (chiefly N American)

1. To range through the bush
2. To fight in guerrilla warfare
3. To travel through woods, esp by clearing a way to do so
4. To work in the bush, esp as an unskilled labourer felling timber (Aust and NZ)

transitive verb (N American)

To ambush

bushˈwhacker noun

1. A guerrilla fighter
2. A backwoodsman, country-dweller, often (derogatory) a country bumpkin or lout (N American and Aust)
3. A short heavy scythe for cutting bushes
4. A person who clears a way in the bush
5. A sniper

bushˈwhacking noun

1. The habits or practices of bushwhackers
2. The process of forcing a way for a boat by pulling at the bushes overhanging a stream

bushˈwoman noun

A woman living in the African or Australian bush

beat about the bush

To prevaricate, avoid coming to the point

go bush (Aust inf)

1. To go off into the bush
2. To leave town or one's usual haunts
3. To abandon civilized life

fruit (obsolete fruict) /froot/

1. The produce of the earth, which supplies the needs of humans and animals
2. An edible part of a plant, generally sweet, acid and juicy, esp a part that contains the seed, but sometimes extended to include other parts (eg the flower-stalk in a strawberry), and popularly distinguished from the vegetable, its savoury, firm-fleshed counterpart
3. A fructification, esp the structure that develops from the ovary and its contents after fertilization, sometimes including also structures formed from other parts of the flower or axis (botany)
4. The offspring of animals (archaic)
5. (often in pl) product, effect or advantage
6. A male homosexual (derog sl, esp US)

To produce fruit

fruitˈage noun (archaic)

1. Fruit collectively
2. Fruits

fruitāˈrian noun

A person who lives on fruit (also adjective)

fruitˈed adjective

1. Containing fruit
2. Having produced fruit

fruitˈer noun

1. A fruiterer (now dialect)
2. A tree, etc as a producer of fruit, as in good fruiter
3. A fruit-grower

fruitˈerer noun

A person who deals in fruit

fruitˈeress noun (rare)

A female fruiterer

fruitˈery noun

1. A place for storing fruit
2. Fruitage

fruitˈful adjective

Productive

fruitˈfully adverb

fruitˈfulness noun

fruitˈiness noun

fruitˈing noun

The process of bearing, or coming into, fruit

fruitˈless adjective

1. Barren, sterile
2. Without profit
3. Useless
4. In vain

fruitˈlessly adverb

fruitˈlessness noun

fruitˈlet noun

1. A small fruit
2. One of the small fruit-like parts that forms an aggregate or multiple fruit

fruitˈy adjective

1. Like, or tasting like, fruit
2. Rich
3. (of a voice) mellow or resonant
4. Salacious, saucy or smutty (informal)
5. Crazy (US inf)
6. Homosexual (informal, esp US)

fruit bat noun

Any bat of the suborder Megacheiroptera, large fruit-eating bats of the Old World

fruit body see fruiting body below.

fruitˈ-bud noun

A bud that produces fruit

fruit cage noun

An enclosure with mesh sides and a roof to protect growing fruit and vegetables from birds, etc

fruitˈcake noun

1. A cake containing dried fruit
2. A slightly mad person (informal)

fruit cocktail noun

A fruit salad, esp one of small, usu diced, pieces of fruit

fruit fly noun

A fly of the genus Drosophila that feeds on decaying fruit

fruiting body noun (botany)

A seed or spore-bearing structure, eg the large spore-bearing structures of many fungi (also fruit body)

fruitˈ-knife noun

A small knife with a blade of silver, etc for cutting fruit

fruit machine noun

A coin-operated gaming machine found in amusement arcades, pubs, etc in which chance must match with any of a variety of stated winning combinations the pictures, traditionally of different fruits, on a set of revolving wheels

fruit salad noun

A mixture of pieces of fruit, fresh or preserved

fruit sugar noun

Fructose

fruit tree noun

A tree yielding edible fruit

fruitˈwood noun

The wood of a fruit tree (also adjective)

bear fruit (figurative)

To have eventual success

bush fruits

Small fruits growing on woody bushes

first-fruits see under first and see annates

in fruit

Bearing fruit

old fruit see under old

small or soft fruit or fruits

Strawberries, blackcurrants, etc