noun

1. A woody plant distinguished from a tree by its multiple stems and lower height, being usually less than six metres tall; a horticultural rather than strictly botanical category.

2. A shrub cut off, or a shrublike branch of a tree.

   “bushes to support pea vines”

3. A shrub or branch, properly, a branch of ivy (sacred to Bacchus), hung out at vintners' doors, or as a tavern sign; hence, a tavern sign, and symbolically, the tavern itself.

Synonyms: shrub

verb

1. To branch thickly in the manner of a bush.

2. To set bushes for; to support with bushes.

   “to bush peas”

3. To use a bush harrow on (land), for covering seeds sown; to harrow with a bush.

   “to bush a piece of land; to bush seeds into the ground”