bushy

bushy
bushily, adv.
/boosh"ee/, adj., bushier, bushiest.
1. resembling a bush; thick and shaggy: bushy whiskers.
2. full of or overgrown with bushes.
[1350-1400; ME busshi. See BUSH1, -Y1]

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