bush
bush /b'ʊʃ/ (bushes)
1 [N-COUNT]
A bush is a large plant which is smaller than a tree and has a lot of branches.
Trees and bushes grew down to the water's edge.
= shrub
2 [N-SING] usu the N, oft N n
The wild, uncultivated parts of some hot countries are referred to as the bush.
They walked through the dense Mozambican bush for thirty six hours...
3 [PHRASE] V inflects, usu with brd-neg
If you tell someone not to beat about the bush, you mean that you want them to tell you something immediately and quickly, rather than in a complicated, indirect way.
Stop beating about the bush. What's he done?
1 [N-COUNT]
A bush is a large plant which is smaller than a tree and has a lot of branches.
Trees and bushes grew down to the water's edge.
= shrub
2 [N-SING] usu the N, oft N n
The wild, uncultivated parts of some hot countries are referred to as the bush.
They walked through the dense Mozambican bush for thirty six hours...
3 [PHRASE] V inflects, usu with brd-neg
If you tell someone not to beat about the bush, you mean that you want them to tell you something immediately and quickly, rather than in a complicated, indirect way.
Stop beating about the bush. What's he done?