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# bushy

«bushy» in Mova's school dictionary: **Growing thickly, with lots of hair, fur or leaves: a…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adjective (bushy, bushier, bushiest)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Growing thickly, with lots of hair, fur or leaves: a bushy tail, bushy eyebrows, a bushy beard. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bushy/#m1)

2) Covered with bushes: bushy land. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bushy/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In descriptions bushy shows thickness and fluffiness: a squirrel's bushy tail, a professor's bushy eyebrows, a bushy hedge. In nature lessons a fox or squirrel uses its bushy tail for balance and warmth. The phrase "bright-eyed and bushy-tailed" means lively and keen.

### examples

- The squirrel waved its bushy tail. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bushy/#x1)
- Grandpa has big, bushy eyebrows. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bushy/#x2)
- The fox has a long, bushy tail. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bushy/#x3)
- The pirate had a bushy black beard. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bushy/#x4)
- Trim the bushy hedge before it covers the path. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bushy/#x5)
- You look bright-eyed and bushy-tailed this morning! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bushy/#x6)
- "Well, but Uncle Remus, you said rabbits had long, bushy tails," replied the little boy. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bushy/#x7)

### note

Forms: bushy, bushier, bushiest (y → i). From "bush". Opposite: thin, sparse. In Australia, "the bush" means wild country, but "bushy" still just means thick and fluffy.

### In the corpora

- [A squirrel's bushy tail helps it balance and works as a blanket and an umbrella.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/215-foxes-and-squirrels/11/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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