bushier; bushiest
1
: full of or overgrown with bushes
2
: resembling a bush
especially
: being thick and spreading
Examples of bushy in a Sentence
an animal with a bushy tail
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Pentas form bushy bedding plants opening white, pink, red or purple blooms depending on the variety.
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Tom MacCubbin, The Orlando Sentinel, 10 May 2025
As for the new garden surrounding the little building, Ford has gathered a variety of bushy and stately plants, like the row of hornbeams that create a border between the new and old dwellings.
—The New York Times, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Mar. 2025
This Trevisani has a bushy black mustache, an olive complexion, and a broad forehead.
—Domenico Starnone, New Yorker, 20 Apr. 2025
But though police identified Kappen’s method and had several descriptors of him — his bushy hair, his mustache, his approximate age and the model of his car — the clues proved too broad and, according to the BBC, police were left sifting through a pool of about 35,000 possible suspects.
—Sean Neumann, People.com, 12 Apr. 2025
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Tom MacCubbin, The Orlando Sentinel, 10 May 2025
As for the new garden surrounding the little building, Ford has gathered a variety of bushy and stately plants, like the row of hornbeams that create a border between the new and old dwellings.
—The New York Times, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Mar. 2025
This Trevisani has a bushy black mustache, an olive complexion, and a broad forehead.
—Domenico Starnone, New Yorker, 20 Apr. 2025
But though police identified Kappen’s method and had several descriptors of him — his bushy hair, his mustache, his approximate age and the model of his car — the clues proved too broad and, according to the BBC, police were left sifting through a pool of about 35,000 possible suspects.
—Sean Neumann, People.com, 12 Apr. 2025
See All Example Sentences for bushy
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“Bushy.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bushy. Accessed 28 May. 2025.
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bushy
adjective
bushier; bushiest
1
: overgrown with bushes
2
: resembling a bush : being thick and spreading
a bushy beard
bushiness
noun
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