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  • adjective Resembling a bush.

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Examples

  • Brazilian pepper, a bushlike member of the poison-ivy family, is another imported ornamental infesting the Everglades.

    Diversity Disappears In Florida 2008

  • Vegetation was scarce, with predominantly yellow bushlike growth scattered on the lower slopes of the hills.

    BLACK FIRE SONNI COOPER 1990

  • An acre of tall, tree-like jojobas might contain fewer than 600 plants; an acre of small bushlike ones could hold perhaps 2,000 plants.

    3 Production 1985

  • In the vineyards of Palestine the vine is cultivated bushlike on the ground; but in gardens, the plant is occasionally trained erect, as in Europe and

    The Life of Jesus Christ for the Young Richard Newton

  • Through the curly mesquite he crawled, hiding behind the short bushlike clumps until he had chosen the next line of advance.

    Oh, You Tex! William MacLeod Raine 1912

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