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- a shrub or clump of shrubs with stems of moderate length矮树丛：
a rose bush
玫瑰丛
the plant will develop into a dense bush.
这种植物最终会长成茂密的灌木丛。
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- a thing resembling such a shrub, especially a clump of thick hair or fur浓密的一簇（或一片）蓬松的毛发（或羽毛）：
a childish face with a bush of bright hair.
一张娃娃脸, 一头蓬松的金发。
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- vulgar slang a woman's pubic hair〈粗俚〉（女人）阴毛。
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the bush
(especially in Australia and Africa) wild or uncultivated country（尤指澳大利亚和非洲的）荒野, 灌木地带：they have to spend a night camping in the bush.
他们必须在荒野露营一个晚上。
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- mass noun the vegetation growing in such a district灌木地带植被：
the lowland country was covered by thick bush.
低地上到处生长着浓密的灌木类植被。
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- NZ indigenous rainforest〈新西兰〉土生雨林。
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- as modifier chiefly S. African uncivilized or primitive〈主南非〉未开化的; 原始的：
bush justice.
原始的正义。
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- historical a bunch of ivy as a vintner's sign〈史〉常春藤束（酒商标志）。
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词源
Middle English: from Old French bos， bosc， variants of bois 'wood'， reinforced by Old Norse buski, of Germanic origin and related to Dutch bos and German Busch. The sense 'uncultivated country' is probably directly from Dutch bos.