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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) or

bushie

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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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
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

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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] → poblado
Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

bushy

[ˈbʊʃi ˈbʊʃi] adj
[eyebrows] → broussailleux/euse, touffu(e); [tail] → touffu(e)
[plant] → épais(se)
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/a
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bush

(buʃ) noun
1. 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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References in classic literature ?
He had a long bushy tail which he was sitting upon, as the stump was somewhat damp.
Bushy, the postmaster, with another neighbour who lived east of us, stopped in to get warm.
Big bushy eyebrows, an awfully deep and solemn voice, a harsh unbending manner, a complete absence in her figure of the undulating lines characteristic of the sex, presented Virtue in this excellent person under its least alluring aspect.
'I have a fine long bushy tail, which almost looks like a plume of red feathers.
In that leafy, flowery, bushy time, to look for any one in this garden was like playing at "hide-and-seek." There were the tall hollyhocks beginning to flower and dazzle the eye with their pink, white, and yellow; there were the syringas and Guelder roses, all large and disorderly for want of trimming; there were leafy walls of scarlet beans and late peas; there was a row of bushy filberts in one direction, and in another a huge apple-tree making a barren circle under its low-spreading boughs.
Walking some forty paces away, Sergey Ivanovitch, knowing he was out of sight, stood still behind a bushy spindle-tree in full flower with its rosy red catkins.
He had spoken in jesting vein, but the twitching of his bushy eyebrows bespoke his disappointment and irritation.
Only, since our last journey thither, the walls had taken a grayer tint, and the brickwork assumed a more harmonious copper tone; the trees had grown, and many that then only stretched their slender branches along the tops of the hedges, now bushy, strong, and luxuriant, cast around, beneath boughs swollen with sap, great shadows of blossoms of fruit for the benefit of the traveler.
He was a London boy, with a loutish air, a heavy fellow with the beginnings of a moustache on his lip and bushy eyebrows that joined one another across the bridge of his nose.
The prince stood still; his lively glittering eyes from under their thick, bushy eyebrows sternly scanned all present and rested on the little princess.
He was a man obviously on the way towards sixty, very florid and hairy, with much gray in his bushy whiskers and thick curly hair, a stoutish body which showed to disadvantage the somewhat worn joinings of his clothes, and the air of a swaggerer, who would aim at being noticeable even at a show of fireworks, regarding his own remarks on any other person's performance as likely to be more interesting than the performance itself.
He led the Saw-Horse to a grassy mound upon which grew several bushy trees, and carefully assisted the Pumpkinhead to alight.