a low plant with many branches that arise from or near the ground.

a small cluster of shrubs appearing as a single plant.

something resembling or suggesting this, as a thick, shaggy head of hair.

Also called bush lot. Canadian . a small, wooded lot, esp. a farm lot with trees left standing to provide firewood, fence posts, etc.

the tail of a fox; brush.

Geography . a stretch of uncultivated land covered with mixed plant growth, bushy vegetation, trees, etc.

a large uncleared area thickly covered with mixed plant growth, trees, etc., as a jungle.

a large, sparsely populated area most of which is uncleared, as areas of Australia and Alaska.

a tree branch hung as a sign before a tavern or vintner's shop.

any tavern sign.

Slang

Vulgar pubic hair.

Archaic . a wineshop.

to be or become bushy; branch or spread as or like a bush.

to cover, protect, support, or mark with a bush or bushes.

bush-league. ?

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.

beat the bushes

to scout or search for persons or things far and wide

beating the bushes for engineers.

go bush

Australian .

to flee or escape into the bush.

Slang . to become wild.

noun

backcountry , backwoods , boscage , bramble , briar , brush , chaparral , creeper , forest , hedge , hinterland , jungle , outback , plant , scrub , scrubland , shrubbery , the wild , thicket , vine , wildernessnotes:bush and shrub are used interchangeably for relatively low woody perennials with many stems and branches that grow from a complex close to the ground; a tree is a woody perennial , usually taller , with branches starting higher up , wilderness , wildness , bosch , branch , clump , cluster , grove , league , shrub , underwood