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| 1. | a low plant with many branches that arise from or near the ground. |
| 2. | a small cluster of shrubs appearing as a single plant. |
| 3. | something resembling or suggesting this, as a thick, shaggy head of hair. |
| 4. | Also called bush lot. Canadian. a small, wooded lot, esp. a farm lot with trees left standing to provide firewood, fence posts, etc. |
| 5. | the tail of a fox; brush. |
| 6. | Geography. a stretch of uncultivated land covered with mixed plant growth, bushy vegetation, trees, etc. |
| 7. | a large uncleared area thickly covered with mixed plant growth, trees, etc., as a jungle. |
| 8. | a large, sparsely populated area most of which is uncleared, as areas of Australia and Alaska. |
| 9. | a tree branch hung as a sign before a tavern or vintner's shop. |
| 10. | any tavern sign. |
| 11. | Slang: Vulgar. pubic hair. |
| 12. | Archaic. a wineshop. |
| 13. | to be or become bushy; branch or spread as or like a bush. |
| 14. | to cover, protect, support, or mark with a bush or bushes. |
| 15. | bush-league. |
| 16. | beat around or about the bush, to avoid coming to the point; delay in approaching a subject directly: Stop beating around the bush and tell me what you want. |
| 17. | beat the bushes, to scout or search for persons or things far and wide: beating the bushes for engineers. |
| 18. | go bush, Australian.
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