Usually means: Shrub; smaller than a tree.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bush, bush, the bush: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. bush, the bush: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. bush, bush: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. bush, the bush: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Bush, bush: Vocabulary.com
  6. Bush, bush: Wordnik
  7. bush, the bush: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Bush, bush: Wiktionary
  9. bush: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. bush: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. bush: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Bush, bush, bush: Dictionary.com
  13. bush: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. bush: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Bush (British band), Bush (Canadian band), Bush (Snoop Dogg album), Bush (album), Bush (band), Bush (beer), Bush (brand), Bush (company), Bush (disambiguation), Bush (mechanical), Bush (plant), Bush (surname), Bush, The Bush (Alaska), The Bush (Duchamp), The Bush, The bush: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Bush: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. bush: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. bush: Rhymezone
  19. bush: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. bush: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Bush: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  22. bush: Free Dictionary
  23. bush: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. Bush: Dictionary/thesaurus
  25. bush: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Bush (disambiguation), Bush (mechanical), Bush (plant), Bush (shrub), bush: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. bush: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. BUSH: Acronym Finder
  2. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  3. bush: Idioms

Religion (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bush: Easton Bible
  2. Bush: Smith's Bible Dictionary

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Botanical Terms (No longer online)

Slang (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. bush, bush, bush, bush, bush, bush, bush, Bush: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. bush: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  3. Bush: Street Terms: Drugs and the Drug Trade
  4. Bush: Dublin Slang and Phrasebook
  5. Bush, Bush, The Bush, bush, bush: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Glossary of Canoe Terminology (No longer online)

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)

(Note: See bushed as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (horticulture) A woody plant distinguished from a tree by its multiple stems and lower height, being usually less than six metres tall; a horticultural rather than strictly botanical category.
noun:  A shrub cut off, or a shrublike branch of a tree.
noun:  (historical) A shrub or branch, properly, a branch of ivy (sacred to Bacchus), hung out at vintners' doors, or as a tavern sign; hence, a tavern sign, and symbolically, the tavern itself.
noun:  (slang, vulgar) A person's pubic hair, especially a woman's.
noun:  (hunting) The tail, or brush, of a fox.
verb:  (intransitive) To branch thickly in the manner of a bush.
verb:  To set bushes for; to support with bushes.
verb:  To use a bush harrow on (land), for covering seeds sown; to harrow with a bush.
verb:  To become bushy (often used with up).
noun:  (archaic) A tavern or wine merchant.
noun:  (often with "the") Tracts of land covered in natural vegetation that are largely undeveloped and uncultivated.
noun:  (Australia) The countryside area of Australia that is less arid and less remote than the outback; loosely, areas of natural flora even within conurbations.
noun:  (New Zealand) An area of New Zealand covered in forest, especially native forest.
noun:  (Canada) The wild forested areas of Canada; upcountry.
noun:  (Canada) A woodlot or bluff on a farm.
adverb:  (Australia) Towards the direction of the outback.
adjective:  (colloquial) Not skilled; not professional; not major league.
noun:  (baseball) Amateurish behavior, short for "bush league behavior"
noun:  A thick washer or hollow cylinder of metal.
noun:  A mechanical attachment, usually a metallic socket with a screw thread, such as the mechanism by which a camera is attached to a tripod stand.
noun:  A piece of copper, screwed into a gun, through which the venthole is bored.
verb:  (transitive) To furnish with a bush or lining; to line.
noun:  A surname from Middle English.
noun:  George H. W. Bush, 41st president of the United States from 1989 to 1993
noun:  George W. Bush, 43rd president of the United States from 2001 to 2009

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