bushes
BUUSH-iz/ˈbʊʃɪz/
- 1Plural of bush.
Thick bushes lined both sides of the narrow path.
The gardener trimmed the bushes into neat rounded shapes.
Note
A regular plural, built the way English treats nouns ending in a hissing sound: bush takes -es, just as brush and wish do, and the extra syllable is heard as well as spelled. The same form serves every meaning of the singular, including garden shrubs, cut branches, a fox's tail, and the ivy branches once hung at vintners' doors.
bushes is a form of bush
bush, noun: A woody, multi-stemmed plant of low height, usually under six meters tall, classed by gardening tradition rather than by strict botanical rank. Full entry
- Forms
- bushbushes plural
- Spelling
- bush → bushes: add -es
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /ɪz/, an extra syllable.
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