Bush
/bʊʃ/noun
A dense growth of shrubs or a shrub with many branches.
Did you know?The word comes from a Germanic root for a shrub or thicket, and its deep relatives show up across related languages in words for bushes and brushy growth, not in any occult sense.
Etymological Timeline
Proto-Germanic
PGmc
*buskaz
“a bush, shrub, or thicket”
Old English
OE
bysc
“a bush or shrub”
Middle English
ME
bussh
“a bush or thicket”
Modern English
English
bush
“a dense shrub or clump of shrubs”