bush
1: not of the highest quality or sophistication [syn: {bush-league}] n 1: a low woody perennial plant usually having several major branches [syn: {shrub}] 2: a large wilderness area 3: dense vegetatio...
bush baby
1: agile long-tailed nocturnal African lemur with dense woolly fur and large eyes and ears [syn: {galago}, {bushbaby}]
bush clover
1: shrubby or herbaceous plants widely used for forage, soil improvement, and especially hay in southern United States [syn: {lespedeza}]
bush hibiscus
1: southern and western Australian shrub with unlobed or shallowly lobed toothed leaves and purple flowers; sometimes placed in genus Hibiscus [syn: {Radyera farragei}, {Hibiscus farragei}]
bush honeysuckle
1: a honeysuckle shrub of southern Russia to central Asia [syn: {Tartarian honeysuckle}, {Lonicera tatarica}] 2: bush honeysuckle of southeastern United States having large crowded clusters of sulfur-...
bush jacket
1: a loose fitting jacket; resembles a shirt with four patch pockets and a belt
bush lawyer
1: stout-stemmed trailing shrub of New Zealand that scrambles over other growth [syn: {lawyerbush}, {lawyer bush}, {Rubus cissoides}, {Rubus australis}]
bush league
1: a league of teams that do not belong to a major league (especially baseball) [syn: {minor league}, {minors}]
bush leaguer
1: a player on a minor-league baseball team [syn: {minor leaguer}]
bush nasturtium
1: annual with deep yellow flowers smaller than the common garden nasturtium [syn: {Tropaeolum minus}]
bush out
1: grow outward; "the plant quickly bushed out"
bush pea
1: any of various plants of the genus Thermopsis having trifoliate leaves and yellow or purple racemose flowers
bush poppy
1: evergreen shrub of southwestern United States and Mexico often cultivated for its fragrant golden yellow flowers [syn: {tree poppy}]
bush tit
1: active gray titmice of western North America [syn: {bushtit}]
bush vetch
1: European purple-flowered with slender stems; occurs as a weed in hedges [syn: {Vicia sepium}]
bush violet
1: any of several herbs of the genus Browallia cultivated for their blue or violet or white flowers [syn: {browallia}]
bush willow
1: small South African tree having creamy yellow fragrant flowers usually growing on stream banks [syn: {Combretum erythrophyllum}] 2: small deciduous tree of the Transvaal having spikes of yellow flo...
bush-league
1: not of the highest quality or sophistication [syn: {bush}]
bushbaby
1: agile long-tailed nocturnal African lemur with dense woolly fur and large eyes and ears [syn: {galago}, {bush baby}]
bushbuck
1: antelope with white markings like a harness and twisted horns [syn: {guib}, {Tragelaphus scriptus}]
bushed
1: very tired; "was all in at the end of the day"; "so beat I could flop down and go to sleep anywhere"; "bushed after all that exercise"; "I'm dead after that long trip" [syn: {all in(p)}, {beat(p)},...
bushel
1: a United States dry measure equal to 4 pecks or 2152.42 cubic inches 2: a British imperial capacity measure (liquid or dry) equal to 4 pecks 3: a basket large enough to hold a bushel [syn: {bushel ...
bushel basket
1: a basket large enough to hold a bushel [syn: {bushel}]
Bushido
1: traditional code of the Japanese samurai which stressed courage and loyalty and self-discipline and simple living
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bushing
1: an insulating liner in an opening through which conductors pass 2: a cylindrical metal lining used to reduce friction [syn: {cylindrical lining}]
Bushman
1: a member of the race of nomadic hunters and gatherers who live in southern Africa 2: a dweller in the Australian bush country
bushman's poison
1: evergreen shrub or tree of South Africa [syn: {ordeal tree}, {Acocanthera oppositifolia}, {Acocanthera venenata}]
Bushnell
1: American inventor who in 1775 designed a man-propelled submarine that was ineffectual but subsequently earned him recognition as a submarine pioneer (1742-1824) [syn: {David Bushnell}, {Father of t...
bushtit
1: active gray titmice of western North America [syn: {bush tit}]
bushwhack
1: wait in hiding to attack [syn: {ambush}, {scupper}, {waylay}, {lurk}, {ambuscade}, {lie in wait}] 2: live in the bush as a fugitive or as a guerilla 3: cut one's way through the woods or bush
bushwhacker
1: a disparaging term for an unsophisticated person [syn: {hillbilly}] 2: a Confederate guerrilla during the American Civil War
bushwhacking
1: lying in ambush; "bushwhacking guerrillas attacking from ambush"
bushy
1: used of hair; thick and poorly groomed; "bushy locks"; "a shaggy beard" [syn: {shaggy}] 2: resembling a bush in being thickly branched and spreading [also: {bushiest}, {bushier}]
bushy aster
1: stiff perennial of the eastern United States having small linear leaves and numerous tiny white flower heads [syn: {Aster dumosus}]
bushytail woodrat
1: any of several bushy-tailed rodents of the genus Neotoma of western North America; hoards food and other objects [syn: {packrat}, {pack rat}, {trade rat}, {Neotoma cinerea}]
busily
1: in a busy manner; "they were busily engaged in buying souvenirs"
business
1: a commercial or industrial enterprise and the people who constitute it; "he bought his brother's business"; "a small mom-and-pop business"; "a racially integrated business concern" [syn: {concern},...
business activity
1: activity undertaken as part of a commercial enterprise [syn: {commercial activity}]
business agent
1: an agent who handles business affairs for another; especially one who deals with employers
business card
1: a card on which are printed the person's name and business affiliation
business college
1: a school for teaching the clerical aspects of business and commerce
business concern
1: a commercial or industrial enterprise and the people who constitute it; "he bought his brother's business"; "a small mom-and-pop business"; "a racially integrated business concern" [syn: {business}...
business cycle
1: recurring fluctuations in economic activity consisting of recession and recovery and growth and decline [syn: {trade cycle}]
business data processing
1: data processing in accounting or business management [syn: {administrative data processing}]
business deal
1: a particular instance of buying or selling; "it was a package deal"; "I had no further trade with him"; "he's a master of the business deal" [syn: {deal}, {trade}]
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