bushier; bushiest
1
: full of or overgrown with bushes
2
: resembling a bush
especially
: being thick and spreading
Examples of bushy in a Sentence
an animal with a bushy tail
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This perennial shrub or small, bushy tree has showy panicles of deep red flowers 6 to 10 inches long on fine-toothed, glossy, dark green palmate leaves.
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Leanne Potts, Better Homes & Gardens, 25 Nov. 2024
If Allure threw a party at Studio 54 in 1979, the room would be filled with '70s makeup trends like glittery eyeshadows, bushy natural brows, and graphic white eyeliner.
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The current state of his ’stache, more tweezed than Hughes’s rebellious bushy caterpillar, is owed to that role.
—Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 19 Nov. 2024
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Leanne Potts, Better Homes & Gardens, 25 Nov. 2024
If Allure threw a party at Studio 54 in 1979, the room would be filled with '70s makeup trends like glittery eyeshadows, bushy natural brows, and graphic white eyeliner.
—Loren Savini, Allure, 10 Sep. 2024
The current state of his ’stache, more tweezed than Hughes’s rebellious bushy caterpillar, is owed to that role.
—Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 19 Nov. 2024
Advertisement The spry 76-year-old with bushy gray hair growing horizontally off his head like a subdued Doc Brown is the white hat — the boss — on his crew.
—Benjamin Royer, Los Angeles Times, 8 Sep. 2024
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“Bushy.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bushy. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.
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bushy
adjective
bushier; bushiest
1
: overgrown with bushes
2
: resembling a bush : being thick and spreading
a bushy beard
bushiness
noun
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