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# bush

«bush» in Mova's school dictionary: **a plant like a small tree with many branches close to the…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (bush, bushes; the bush)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A bush is a plant like a small tree with many branches close to the ground. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bush/#m1)

2) The bush (in Australia, New Zealand and Africa) is wild land far from towns, with trees and shrubs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bush/#m2)

3) A bush of hair is a thick mass of it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bush/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In school maths: counted plants; berries or flowers on each bush (total = bushes × each); bushes planted in rows (an array). In science: plants, habitats, animals that hide in bushes. In everyday life: rose bushes, blackberry bushes, bushwalking in Australia, bushfires. Phrases: «beat around the bush» (not say something directly), «a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush», «bush fire», «bushwalk».

### examples

- Each bush has 20 berries. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bush/#x1)
- She planted 3 rows of 8 bushes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bush/#x2)
- There are 15 rose bushes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bush/#x3)
- How many berries on 6 bushes? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bush/#x4)
- A rabbit hid under the bush. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bush/#x5)
- We went bushwalking in the Blue Mountains. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bush/#x6)
- Stop beating around the bush and tell me! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bush/#x7)
- Bushfires can spread fast in hot, dry weather. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bush/#x8)
- "I've found a currant bush; don't pick it." [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bush/#x9)

### note

Plural «bushes» (add -es). «Shrub» is another word for a bush. Maths: group with a size: total = bushes × each; rows × bushes in a row. Trap: only some bushes may have berries — read which ones. Safety: in the bush, stay on the track and carry water.

### In the corpora

- [Duikers are small forest antelopes whose name means diver in Afrikaans, because they plunge into thick bushes to escape.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/159-the-congo-rainforest/17/)
- [A sheep called Chris was found in Australia in 2015 after years lost in the bush, carrying over forty kilograms of wool.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/211-sheep-and-goats-wool-flocks-climbers-and-the-tin-can-myth/5/)
- [The tiny wren has one of the loudest songs for its size, which carries through thick bushes.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/216-garden-birds-robins-blackbirds-tits-and-feeders/15/)
- [Buddleia, called the butterfly bush, is full of nectar and attracts many butterflies to a garden.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/219-butterflies-moths-and-ladybirds/15/)
- [In cartoons potatoes grow on trees and carrots wink from bushes.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/338-the-vegetable-patch-peas-potatoes-tomatoes-and-slugs/3/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «bush» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bush/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.