bush

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A low woody plant with many stems, smaller than a tree.

   A rabbit hid behind the rose bush in the garden.

2. 2
   noun

   Wild, uncleared land covered with trees and shrubs, especially in Africa or Australia.

   They camped out in the bush for a week.

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Simplified etymology

Bush, recorded from Middle English, comes from late Latin boscus, “wood.” Boscus also formed part of late Latin inboscare, built from a word meaning “in” and boscus; this gave Old French embusche, from which English ambush developed.

From Middle English bush, from Old English *busċ, *bysċ (“copse, grove, scrub”, in placenames), from Proto-West Germanic *busk, from Proto-Germanic *buskaz (“bush, thicket”), probably from Proto-Indo-European *bʰuH- (“to grow”). Doublet of bosque. Cognates Cognate with Saterland Frisian Busk (“bush”), West Frisian bosk (“forest”), Dutch bos, bosch (“forest, wood”), German Busch (“bush, shrub; small forest, grove”), Luxembourgish Bësch (“forest, wood”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål and Norwegian Nynorsk busk (“bush, shrub”), Icelandic buski (“bush, shrub”), Swedish buske (“bush, shrub”), Persian بی…

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