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A shrub so humble it built empires by hiding everything you needed behind it.
means A low woody plant with many stems instead of a single trunk; also, by extension, wild uncultivated country covered in such growth.
from From Old English 'busc' and its Germanic relatives — Middle Dutch 'bosch,' Old High German 'busc' — all naming a thicket or shrub, possibly cousins of the same root that gave us 'boscage' and even 'ambush' (to lie hidden in the brush). The sense of 'the bush' as wild backcountry came later through Dutch 'bosch,' carried by settlers to South Africa, Australia, and elsewhere, where the open wilderness took the old word for tangled scrub and stretched it across whole continents.
- Burning bush
- Set Moses on the path with a flaming hedge
- Beat around
- Phrase comes from medieval bird hunting tactics
- Tumbleweed truth
- It's a dead bush rolling to scatter seeds
- Bushman survival
- Some species store drinkable water in their roots
- Outback meaning
- Aussies call the entire wilderness 'the bush'
kate bush — british musician, hounds of love album 1985