brushy

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   covered with or consisting of dense bushes, scrub, or undergrowth

   The trail disappeared into a brushy slope above the river.

2. 2
   adj

   resembling a brush by having many bristles, twigs, or bushy fibers

   The animal swept its brushy tail across the snow.

From brush + -y. Brush has long meant both a dense growth of shrubs and an implement made from clustered bristles. Those two senses produced brushy's descriptions of overgrown land and of tails, branches, or other objects with a brushlike texture.

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