Definitions

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  • adjective Abounding with bushes and briars.
  • adjective botany Having a compact, bushy form.

Etymologies

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Latin dumōsus ("overgrown with thorns or briars")

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Examples

  • Bemoaning thus, by dumous path, they crushed the cycad's growth,

    Dot and the Kangaroo Ethel C. Pedley 1889

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