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Busch

bush; shrub

noun BUSH Rare
Animals & Nature Plants

Also means

the bush (Australian outback, figurative)

Usage Note

Busch is a smaller and less formal synonym for Strauch (shrub), often implying a wilder, untrimmed plant. Im Busch (in the bush) can mean the African or Australian outback in German. Common in place names (Buschweg) and in the idiom auf den Busch klopfen (to beat around the bush — to fish for information).

Examples

"Hinter dem dichten Busch hörten wir das Rascheln eines kleinen Tieres."

Natural Translation

Behind the dense bush we heard the rustling of a small animal.

Literal Translation

Behind the dense bush we heard the rustling of a small animal.

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