bush
中文来自 ECDICT
- n.
- 矮树丛
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演变路径（由近及远）
词源说明
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.
释义（英文）
名词 Noun
- (horticulture) A woody plant distinguished from a tree by its multiple stems and lower height, being usually less than six metres tall; a horticultural rather than strictly botanical category.
- A shrub cut off, or a shrublike branch of a tree.
- (archaic or dialectal and in placenames) A thicket, a small wood, or a tract of uncleared, woody land.
- (historical) A shrub or branch, properly, a branch of ivy (sacred to Bacchus
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词源说明
From the sign of a bush usually employed to indicate such places.
释义（英文）
词族
派生词（1）
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词源说明
A semantic expansion of bush (see Etymology 1, archaic and dialectal sense of “thicket” or “small wood”), which survived in English dialects and London‐area toponyms (such as Shepherd’s Bush).
释义（英文）
名词 Noun
- (chiefly Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Canada, Alaska, often with “the”) Tracts of land covered in natural vegetation that are largely undeveloped and uncultivated, typically distinguished from absolute wilderness by implying a degree of marginal human engagement or proximity to settlement edges.
- (Canada) A wood lot or bluff on a farm.
副词 Adverb
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词源说明
Back-formation from bush league.
释义（英文）
形容词 Adjective
- (colloquial) Not skilled; not professional; not major league.
名词 Noun
- (baseball) Amateurish behavior, short for bush league behavior
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演变路径（由近及远）
词源说明
From Middle Dutch busse (“box; wheel bushing”), from Proto-West Germanic *buhsā. More at box.
释义（英文）
名词 Noun
- A thick washer or hollow cylinder of metal.
- A mechanical attachment, usually a metallic socket with a screw thread, such as the mechanism by which a camera is attached to a tripod stand.
- A piece of copper, screwed into a