Lexic.us

Definition of Bushy

1. Adjective. Used of hair; thick and poorly groomed. "A shaggy beard"

2. Adjective. Resembling a bush in being thickly branched and spreading.

Definition of Bushy

1. a. Thick and spreading, like a bush.

Definition of Bushy

1. Adjective. Like a bush in having many widely spread branches. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Bushy

1. covered with bushes [adj BUSHIER, BUSHIEST]

Medical Definition of Bushy

1. 1. Thick and spreading, like a bush. "Bushy eyebrows." 2. Full of bushes; overgrowing with shrubs. "Dingle, or bushy dell, of this wild wood." (Milton) Origin: From 1st Bush. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Bushy

bushwalk bushwalked bushwalker bushwalkers bushwalking bushwalks bushwas bushwhack bushwhacked bushwhacker

bushwhackers bushwhacking bushwhackings bushwhacks bushwork bushy (current term) bushy aster bushytail woodrat busied busier

busies busiest busihead busily business-deal business-to-business business-to-consumer business-to-institutions business activity

Literary usage of Bushy

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Uncle Remus: His Songs and His Sayings; the Folk-lore of the Old Plantation by Joel Chandler Harris (1880)
"RABBIT LOST HIS FINE bushy TAIL. “ONE time,” said Uncle Remus, sighing heavily and settling himself back in his seat with an air of melancholy resignation—” ..."

2. Library of Southern Literature by Edwin Anderson Alderman, Joel Chandler Harris, Charles William Kent (1909)
"RABBIT LOST HIS FINE bushy TAIL From 'Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings. ... "Everybody knows that rabbits haven't got long, bushy tails. ..."

3. Synoptical Flora of North America: The Gamopetalae, Being a Second Edition by Asa Gray (1888)
"bushy, more or less pubescent or glandular-pill i above, at least the pale pink or yellowish flowers: leaves small (half-inch to ¡neh long), even uppermost ..."

4. The Popular Science Monthly by Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) (1890)
"2), which in the domestic cat is long, slender, and tapering, while in the wild cat it is shorter, stumpy, and bushy. The fact that no tendency has been ..."

5. The Cheyenne by George Amos Dorsey (1905)
"Before sunrise on this morning the young man who was to undergo the ordeal, with bushy-Head, the medicine man, and an assistant, went to the south side of ..."

6. A Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of the Most Eminent Dutch, Flemish, and by John Smith (1836)
"An Aged Man, with a large bushy gray beard, seen in nearly a front view, ... He is portrayed in nearly a front view, having a bushy beard and curling hair, ..."

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