Definition of bush

"bush" in the noun sense

1. shrub, bush

a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems

2. bush

a large wilderness area

3. scrub, chaparral, bush

dense vegetation consisting of stunted trees or bushes

4. Bush, George Bush, George W. Bush, George Walker Bush, President Bush, President George W. Bush, Dubyuh, Dubya

43rd President of the United States son of George Herbert Walker Bush (born in 1946)

5. Bush, Vannevar Bush

United States electrical engineer who designed an early analogue computer and who led the scientific program of the United States during World War II (1890-1974)

6. Bush, George Bush, George H.W. Bush, George H. W. Bush, George Herbert Walker Bush, President Bush

vice president under Reagan and 41st President of the United States (born in 1924)

7. pubic hair, bush, crotch hair

hair growing in the pubic area

"bush" in the verb sense

1. bush

provide with a bushing

"bush" in the adjective sense

1. bush-league, bush

not of the highest quality or sophistication

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Quotations for bush

To beat about the bush. [ French ]

Good wine needs no bush. [ Proverb ]

To stop two gaps with one bush. [ Proverb ]

That is the way to beggar's bush. [ Proverb ]

Bush natural, more hairs than wit. [ Proverb ]

You take every bush for a bug-bear. [ Proverb ]

Earth's crammed with heaven,
And every common bush afire with God. [ Leigh ]

A thin bush is better than no shelter. [ Proverb ]

He looks like a wild cat out of a bush. [ Proverb ]

Such tricks hath strong imagination,
That, if it would but apprehend some joy,
It comprehends some bringer of that joy;
Or in the night, imagining some fear,
How easy is a bush supposed a bear. [ William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream ]

Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind;
The thief doth fear each bush an officer. [ William Shakespeare ]

A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush. [ Proverb ]

A world in the hand is worth two in the bush. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

One beats the bush, and another catches the bird. [ Proverb ]

He that fears every bush must never go a birding. [ Proverb ]

Here if you beat a bush, its odds but you start a thief. [ Proverb ]

It is a blind goose that knows not a fox from a fern-bush. [ Proverb ]

Who shoots at the midday sun, though he be sure he shall never hit the mark, yet as sure he is that he shall shoot higher than he who aims but at a bush. [ Sir P. Sidney ]

Learn, O student, the true wisdom. See yon bush aflame with roses, like the burning bush of Moses. Listen, and thou shalt hear, if thy soul be not deaf, how from out it, soft and clear, speaks to thee the Lord Almighty. [ Hafiz ]

The truths of nature are one eternal change, one infinite variety. There is no bush on the face of the globe exactly like another bush; there are no two trees in the forest whose boughs bend into the same network, nor two leaves on the same tree which could not be told one from the other, nor two waves in the sea exactly alike. [ Ruskin ]

bush in Scrabble®

The word bush is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 9

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays In The Letters bush:

HUBS
(39)
BUSH
(39)
 

All Scrabble® Plays For The Word bush

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The 120 Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays For Words Using The Letters In bush

HUBS
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bush in Words With Friends™

The word bush is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 10

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Play In The Letters bush:

BUSH
(54)
 

All Words With Friends™ Plays For The Word bush

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The 130 Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays Using The Letters In bush

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Words within the letters of bush

2 letter words in bush (2 words)

3 letter words in bush (4 words)

4 letter words in bush (Anagrams) (2 words)

Word Growth involving bush

Shorter words in bush

us bus

Longer words containing bush

ambush ambushed counterambushed

ambush ambusher ambushers counterambushers

ambush ambusher counterambusher counterambushers

ambush ambushes counterambushes

ambush ambushing counterambushing

ambush ambushlike

ambush ambushment ambushments

ambush counterambush counterambushed

ambush counterambush counterambusher counterambushers

ambush counterambush counterambushes

ambush counterambush counterambushing

babushka babushkas

berrybush berrybushes cranberrybushes

berrybush cranberrybush cranberrybushes

bluebush bluebushes

bramblebush bramblebushes

brittlebush brittlebushes

bushbabies

bushbaby

bushbok bushboks

bushbuck bushbucks

bushed ambushed counterambushed

bushel bushelage bushelages

bushel bushelbasket bushelbaskets

bushel busheled

bushel busheler bushelers

bushel bushelful bushelfuls

bushel busheling bushelings

bushel bushelled

bushel busheller bushellers

bushel bushelling bushellings

bushel bushelman

bushel bushelmen

bushel bushels

bushel bushelwoman

bushel bushelwomen

bushes ambushes counterambushes

bushes berrybushes cranberrybushes

bushes bluebushes

bushes bramblebushes

bushes brittlebushes

bushes coralbushes

bushes fetterbushes

bushes flaxbushes

bushes maybushes

bushes quailbushes

bushes reedbushes

bushes rosebushes

bushes saltbushes

bushes skunkbushes

bushes sloebushes

bushes spicebushes

bushes sugarbushes

bushfire bushfires

bushflies

bushfly

bushgoat bushgoats

bushhammer bushhammers

bushier

bushiest

bushily

bushiness

bushing ambushing counterambushing

bushing bushings

bushland bushlands

bushless

bushlike ambushlike

bushman

bushmaster bushmasters

bushmeat bushmeats

bushmen ambushment ambushments

bushpig bushpigs

bushplane bushplanes

bushranger bushrangers

bushtit bushtits

bushveld bushvelds

bushwalk bushwalked

bushwalk bushwalker bushwalkers

bushwalk bushwalking

bushwalk bushwalks

bushwhack bushwhacked

bushwhack bushwhacker bushwhackers

bushwhack bushwhacking

bushwhack bushwhacks

bushy

coralbush coralbushes

elderbush

fetterbush fetterbushes

flaxbush flaxbushes

maybush maybushes

quailbush quailbushes

reedbush reedbushes

rosebush rosebushes

saltbush saltbushes

skunkbush skunkbushes

sloebush sloebushes

spicebush spicebushes

sugarbush sugarbushes

thornbush