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Definition of Bushlike
1. resembling a bush [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bushlike
Literary usage of Bushlike
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Sunset by Southern Pacific Company, Southern Pacific Company. Passenger Dept (1914)
"... of the "cassi," a low bushlike plant which carpets all the islands of the
Marquesas and blooms perennially. So pungent and far-reaching is this odor ..."
2. The History of Greece by Ernst Curtius, William Alfred Packard (1871)
"Among their number must be reckoned with the rest the byssus-plant (probably the
bushlike cotton tree), which was employed in weaving by the women of the ..."
3. Practical physics by Robert Andrews Millikan, Henry Gordon Gale, Willard R. Pyle (1922)
"The bushlike appearance is due to the repulsive action which the outside free
poles exert upon each other. 268. Retentivity and permeability. ..."
4. Cyclopedia of American Horticulture: Comprising Suggestions for Cultivation by Liberty Hyde Bailey, Wilhelm Miller (1901)
"... Bungeana, montana, with several of the nurserymen's varieties, remaining
actually dwarfs and maintaining a compact, bushlike appearance for a long time. ..."
5. In & Around the Grand Canyon: the Grand canyon of the Colorado river in Arizona by George Wharton James (1900)
"White-spined and formidable, bushlike. Quite large and terrible bushes. Prickly pear,
common,nearly spineless. Barrel cactus, 2-3 feet high. ..."
6. The Horticulturist, and Journal of Rural Art and Rural Taste by Luther Tucker (1854)
"... the only effect perceptible is the moderate growth the trees make, so that
they are kept in a compact, bushlike form, easily protected from frost in ..."
7. The Native Races of South Africa: A History of the Intrusion of the by George William Stow (1905)
"From the smallness and bushlike appearance of their houses, and as their situation
is not betrayed by the lowing of cattle, it is no easy task without the ..."
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