Bushy

• POS: Adjective, Noun
• HYPHEN: bush=y

CIDE DICTIONARY

Bushy, a. [From 1st Bush.].

•  Thick and spreading, like a bush.  Irving.  [1913 Webster]
•  Full of bushes; overgrowing with shrubs.  [1913 Webster]

  "Dingle, or bushy dell, of this wild wood."  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

Bushy, adj. (bushier, bushiest)
1 growing thickly like a bush.
2 having many bushes.
3 covered with bush.

Derivative

bushily adv. bushiness n.

Bushy, n. (pl. -ies) Austral. & NZ colloq. a person who lives in the bush (as distinct from in a town).

THESAURUS

Bushy

afforestational, arborary, arboreal, arboreous, arborescent, arboresque, arborical, arboriform, bosky, braky, bristly, bushlike, cirrose, citrous, coniferous, copsy, deciduous, dendriform, dendritic, dendroid, dendrologic, evergreen, fleecy, flocculent, forest, forestal, forested, furry, fuzzy, hairy, hardwood, hirsute, hispid, lanate, matted, nondeciduous, pilose, piny, pubescent, reforestational, scrubbly, scrubby, scrublike, shagged, shaggy, shrubby, shrublike, silvicultural, softwood, sylvan, timbered, treelike, unshorn, wooded, woodland, woodsy, woody, woolly

ROGET THESAURUS

Bushy

Roughness

N roughness, tooth, grain, texture, ripple, asperity, rugosity, salebrosity, corrugation, nodosity, arborescence, pilosity, brush, hair, beard, shag, mane, whisker, moustache, imperial, tress, lock, curl, ringlet, fimbriae, pili, cilia, villi, lovelock, beaucatcher, curl paper, goatee, papillote, scalp lock, plumage, plumosity, plume, panache, crest, feather, tuft, fringe, toupee, wool, velvet, plush, nap, pile, floss, fur, down, byssus, moss, bur, fluff, knot (convolution), rough, uneven, scabrous, scaly, knotted, rugged, rugose, rugous, knurly, asperous, crisp, salebrous, gnarled, unpolished, unsmooth, roughhewn, craggy, cragged, crankling, scraggy, prickly, arborescent, leafy, well-wooded, feathery, plumose, plumigerous, laciniate, laciniform, laciniose, pappose, pileous, pilose, trichogenous, trichoid, tufted, fimbriated, hairy, ciliated, filamentous, hirsute, crinose, crinite, bushy, hispid, villous, pappous, bearded, pilous, shaggy, shagged, fringed, befringed, setous, setose, setaceous, like quills upon the fretful porcupine, rough as a nutmeg grater, rough as a bear, downy, velvety, flocculent, woolly, lanate, lanated, lanuginous, lanuginose, tomentose, fluffy, against the grain, cabello luengo y corto el seso.