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BUSHY
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Irregular inflected forms: bushier , bushiest
I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Resembling a bush in being thickly branched and spreading
Classified under:
Similar:
branchy (having many branches)
Derivation:
bush (dense vegetation consisting of stunted trees or bushes)
bush (a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Used of hair; thick and poorly groomed
Example:
a shaggy beard
Synonyms:
bushy; shaggy; shaggy-coated; shaggy-haired
Classified under:
Similar:
ungroomed (not neat and smart in appearance)
Context examples:
Van Helsing was gazing at him with a look of utmost intensity, his bushy eyebrows almost meeting with the fixed concentration of his look.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
His face and neck were hidden beneath a black beard, intershot with grey, which would have been stiff and bushy had it not been limp and draggled and dripping with water.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
All that they saw of him was his bushy tail and fleeing hind legs—a view far less ferocious and intimidating than his bristling mane and gleaming fangs.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
The Irish Terrier is a medium-sized, well-proportioned terrier with long whiskers, a bearded muzzle with powerful jaws, and bushy eyebrows.
(Irish Terrier, NCI Thesaurus)
A regular German—rather stout, with brown hair tumbled all over his head, a bushy beard, good nose, the kindest eyes I ever saw, and a splendid big voice that does one's ears good, after our sharp or slipshod American gabble.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
I looked desperately round for some rock or tree, but I was in a bushy jungle with nothing higher than a sapling within sight, while I knew that the creature behind me could tear down an ordinary tree as though it were a reed.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
He, for it was a man, turned his head slowly towards where I stood, and having examined me with the two inquisitive-looking grey eyes which twinkled under a pair of bushy brows, said solemnly, and in a bass voice, Her size is small: what is her age?
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
He curved his bushy tail around to cover them, and at the same time he saw a vision.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
I believe Van Helsing saw it, too, for I saw the quick look under his bushy brows that I knew of old.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
About five ft. seven in. in height; strongly built, sallow complexion, black hair, a little bald in the centre, bushy, black side-whiskers and moustache; tinted glasses, slight infirmity of speech.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
