Understanding CBUSH/PBUSH Input in Femap. to scout or search for persons or things far and wide: I've been beating the bushes for a skilled, honest, inexpensive renovator. an object with short pieces of stiff hair, plastic, or wire attached to a base or handle, used for cleaning, arranging your hair, or painting: I can't find my brush, but I still have my comb. U.S. First Lady 200109 (wife of George W. Bush). Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Last edited on Dec 23 1999. Vacuum News. bull nettle. to avoid coming to the point; delay in approaching a subject directly: Stop beating around the bush and tell me what you want. China and Japan and India; source of tea leaves, European evergreen eryngo with twisted spiny leaves naturalized on United States east coast; roots formerly used as an aphrodisiac, South American shrub or small tree having long shining evergreen leaves and panicles of green or yellow flowers, small New Zealand broadleaf evergreen tree often cultivated in warm regions as an ornamental, (Old Testament) the bush that burned without being consumed and from which God spoke to Moses, low-growing woody shrub or perennial with woody base, a shrub or shrubby tree of the genus Rhamnus; fruits are source of yellow dyes or pigments, shrubby deciduous tree of the Mediterranean region, thorny Eurasian shrub with dry woody winged fruit, any of various evergreen climbing shrubs of the genus Stephanotis having fragrant waxy flowers, deciduous shrub of eastern North America whose leaves turn scarlet in autumn and having racemes of yellow flowers followed by ellipsoid glossy red berries, upright deciduous European shrub widely naturalized in United States having clusters of juicy berries, compact deciduous shrub having persistent red berries; widespread in cultivation especially for hedges, hardy shrub of southeastern United States having clove-scented wood and fragrant red-brown flowers, straggling aromatic shrub of southwestern United States having fragrant brown flowers, evergreen aromatic shrubby tree of southeastern United States having small hard berries thickly coated with white wax used for candles, deciduous aromatic shrub of eastern North America with grey-green wax-coated berries, either of two Australian plants of the genus Swainsona that are poisonous to sheep, semi-climbing prickly evergreen shrub of tropical America having compound leaves sensitive to light and touch, prostrate or semi-erect subshrub of tropical America, and Australia; heavily armed with recurved thorns and having sensitive soft grey-green leaflets that fold and droop at night or when touched or cooled, thorny deep-rooted drought-resistant shrub native to southwestern United States and Mexico bearing pods rich in sugar and important as livestock feed; tends to form extensive thickets, mesquite of Gulf Coast and Caribbean Islands from Mexico to Venezuela, shrub or small tree of southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico having spirally twisted pods, subshrubs of southeastern United States forming slow-growing clumps and having blue flowers in short terminal cymes, South African shrub having forked spines and plumlike fruit; frequently used as hedging, very large closely branched South African shrub having forked bright green spines and shiny leaves, frangipani of India having an erect habit and conical form; grown in temple gardens, tall sparingly branched conical tree having large fragrant yellow flowers with white centers, East Indian climbing shrub with twisted limbs and roots resembling serpents, chiefly trailing poisonous plants with blue flowers, common perennial herb having aromatic roots used as a substitute for sarsaparilla; central and eastern North America, unarmed woody rhizomatous perennial plant distinguished from wild sarsaparilla by more aromatic roots and panicled umbels; southeastern North America to Mexico, bristly herb of eastern and central North America having black fruit and medicinal bark, any plant of the genus Iresine having colored foliage, handsome low saltbush of arid southwestern United States and Mexico having blue-green prickly-edged leaves often used for Christmas decoration, spiny shrub with silvery-scurfy foliage of alkaline plains of southwestern United States and Mexico, small Australian tree bearing edible fruit resembling the pomegranate, shrub or small tree of southern Florida to Central and South America, small Australian tree bearing edible dark purple fruit, prostrate spiny shrub of the Mediterranean region cultivated for its greenish flower buds which are pickled, perennial of southwestern United States having leathery blue-green pinnatifid leaves and thick plumelike spikes of yellow flowers; sometimes placed in genus Cleome, tall branching subshrub of California and Mexico often cultivated for its silvery-blue foliage and large fragrant white flowers, any of several erect biennial herbs of temperate Eurasia having stout taproots and producing burs, perennial subshrub of the Canary Islands having usually pale yellow daisylike flowers; often included in genus Chrysanthemum, any of several low composite herbs of the genera Artemisia or Seriphidium, any of several North American composite subshrubs of the genera Artemis or Seriphidium, aromatic perennial of southeastern Russia, any of several plants of the genus Bidens having yellow flowers and prickly fruits that cling to fur and clothing, pleasantly aromatic shrub having erect slender flexible hairy branches and dense clusters of small yellow flowers covering vast areas of western alkali plains and affording a retreat for jackrabbits; source of a yellow dye used by the Navajo, any of several plants of the genus Gutierrezia having tiny flower heads that resemble the heads of matches, musk-scented shrub or tree of southern and southeastern Australia having creamy-yellow flower heads, bushy New Zealand shrub cultivated for its fragrant white flower heads, much-branched subshrub with silvery leaves and small white flowers of Texas and northern Mexico; cultivated as a source of rubber, stout perennial herb of the eastern United States with whitish flowers; leaves traditionally used by Catawba Indians to treat burns, annual Eurasian sow thistle with soft spiny leaves and rayed yellow flower heads, weedy plant having short dry chafflike leaves, any of numerous sun-loving low-growing evergreens of the genus Armeria having round heads of pink or white flowers, any of various plants of the genus Limonium of temperate salt marshes having spikes of white or mauve flowers, erect Old World perennial with faintly musk-scented foliage and white or pink flowers; adventive in United States, annual Old World plant with clusters of pink or white flowers; naturalized in United States, erect or decumbent Old World perennial with axillary clusters of rosy-purple flowers; introduced in United States, bushy herb of tropical Asia grown for its yellow or pink to scarlet blooms that resemble the hibiscus, tall annual herb or subshrub of tropical Asia having velvety leaves and yellow flowers and yielding a strong fiber; naturalized in southeastern Europe and United States, any of various tall plants of the genus Alcea; native to the Middle East but widely naturalized and cultivated for its very large variously colored flowers, any of various plants of the genus Althaea; similar to but having smaller flowers than genus Alcea, a plant of the genus Callirhoe having palmately cleft leaves and white to red or purple flowers borne throughout the summer, East Indian shrub cultivated especially for ornament for its pale yellow to deep purple blossoms, small bushy tree grown on islands of the Caribbean and off the Atlantic coast of the southern United States; yields cotton with unusually long silky fibers, Old World annual having heart-shaped leaves and large seeds with short greyish lint removed with difficulty; considered an ancestor of modern short-staple cottons, native tropical American plant now cultivated in the United States yielding short-staple cotton, fine somewhat brownish long-staple cotton grown in Egypt; believed to be derived from sea island cotton or by hybridization with Peruvian cotton, a rare mallow found only in Illinois resembling the common hollyhock and having pale rose-mauve flowers; sometimes placed in genus Sphaeralcea, perennial of northwestern United States and western Canada resembling a hollyhock and having white or pink flowers, any of various plants of the genus Kosteletzya predominantly of coastal habitats; grown for their flowers that resemble hibiscus, shrub of coastal ranges of California and Baja California having hairy branches and spikes of numerous mauve flowers; sometimes placed in genus Sphaeralcea, western Mediterranean annual having deep purple-red flowers subtended by 3 large cordate bracts, an American plant of the genus Malvastrum, any of various plants of the genus Malvaviscus having brilliant bell-shaped drooping flowers like incompletely opened hibiscus flowers, tall coarse American herb having palmate leaves and numerous small white dioecious flowers; found wild in most alluvial soils of eastern and central United States, tall handsome perennial herb of southeastern United States having maplelike leaves and white flowers, herb widely distributed in tropics and subtropics used for forage and medicinally as a demulcent and having a fine soft bast stronger than jute; sometimes an aggressive weed, tropical American weed having pale yellow or orange flowers naturalized in southern United States, perennial purple-flowered wild mallow of western North America that is also cultivated, genus of coarse herbs and subshrubs of arid North and South America having pink or scarlet flowers and globose fruits, East Indian shrub often cultivated for its hairy leaves and orange-red flowers, any of various plants of the genus Corchorus having large leaves and cymose clusters of yellow flowers; a source of jute, South African shrub whose flowers when open are cup-shaped resembling artichokes, Australian shrub whose flowers yield honey copiously, shrubby tree with silky foliage and spikes of cylindrical yellow nectarous flowers, any of several Australian timber trees having usually fernlike foliage and mottled wood used in cabinetry and veneering, wiry evergreen shrub having pendent clusters of white or pink flowers; of wet acidic areas in Arctic and Canada to northeastern United States, erect to procumbent evergreen shrub having pendent clusters of white or pink flowers; of sphagnum peat bogs and other wet acidic areas in northern Europe, evergreen tree of the Pacific coast of North America having glossy leathery leaves and orange-red edible berries; wood used for furniture and bark for tanning, small evergreen European shrubby tree bearing many-seeded scarlet berries that are edible but bland; of Ireland, southern Europe, Asia Minor, evergreen mat-forming shrub of North America and northern Eurasia having small white flowers and red berries; leaves turn red in autumn, deciduous creeping shrub bright red in autumn having black or blue-black berries; alpine and circumpolar, erect California shrub having leaves with heart-shaped lobes at the base, erect treelike shrub forming dense thickets and having drooping panicles of white or pink flowers and red berrylike drupes; California, erect openly branched California shrub whose twigs are woolly when young, small evergreen mat-forming shrub of southern Europe and Asia Minor having stiff stems and terminal clusters of small bell-shaped flowers, common Old World heath represented by many varieties; low evergreen grown widely in the northern hemisphere, heath of mountains of western United States having bell-shaped white flowers, low straggling evergreen shrub of western Europe represented by several varieties with flowers from white to rose-purple, slow-growing procumbent evergreen shrublet of northern North America and Japan having white flowers and numerous white fleshy rough and hairy seeds, creeping shrub of eastern North America having white bell-shaped flowers followed by spicy red berrylike fruit and shiny aromatic leaves that yield wintergreen oil, low shrub of the eastern United States bearing shiny black edible fruit; best known of the huckleberries, huckleberry of the eastern United States with pink flowers and sweet blue fruit, creeping evergreen shrub of southeastern United States having small shiny boxlike leaves and flavorless berries, a North American evergreen shrub having glossy leaves and white or rose-colored flowers, laurel of bogs of northwestern United States having small purple flowers and pale leaves that are glaucous beneath, North American dwarf shrub resembling mountain laurel but having narrower leaves and small red flowers; poisonous to young stock, small shrub with tiny evergreen leaves and pink or purple flowers; Alpine summits and high ground in Asia and Europe and United States, semi-prostrate evergreen herb of western United States, medium-sized rhododendron of Pacific coast of North America having large rosy brown-spotted flowers, late-spring-blooming rhododendron of eastern North America having rosy to pink-purple flowers, shrub growing in swamps throughout the eastern United States and having small white to pinkish flowers resembling honeysuckle, any of numerous ornamental shrubs grown for their showy flowers of various colors, small red-fruited trailing cranberry of Arctic and cool regions of the northern hemisphere, any of various dark-fruited as distinguished from blue-fruited blueberries, shrub or small tree of eastern United States having black inedible berries, low-growing deciduous shrub of northeastern North America having flowers in compact racemes and bearing sweet dark blue berries, shrub of southeastern United States grown commercially especially for canning industry, low-growing tufted deciduous shrub of northern and alpine North America having pink to coral-red flowers followed by sweet blue berries, high-growing deciduous shrub of eastern North America bearing edible blueish to blackish berries with a distinct bloom; source of most cultivated blueberries, shrub of the eastern United States having shining evergreen leaves and bluish-black fruit, stiff bushy evergreen shrub of western North America having sour black berries and glossy green foliage used in floral arrangements, erect blueberry of western United States having solitary flowers and somewhat sour berries, erect European blueberry having solitary flowers and blue-black berries, low deciduous shrub of the eastern United States bearing dark blue sweet berries, shrub of northwestern North America bearing red berries, small branching blueberry common in marshy areas of the eastern United States having greenish or yellowish unpalatable berries reputedly eaten by deer, low evergreen shrub of high north temperate regions of Europe and Asia and America bearing red edible berries, any boreal low-growing evergreen plant of the genus Diapensia, any heathlike evergreen shrub of the genus Epacris grown for their showy and crowded spikes of small bell-shaped or tubular flowers, stout Australian shrub with narrow leaves crowded at ends of branches and terminal clusters of white or pink flowers, gaunt Tasmanian evergreen shrubby tree with slender tapering leaves 3 to 5 feet long, spiny branching deciduous shrub of southwestern United States having clusters of insignificant yellow-white flowers appearing before leaves followed by attractive black berrylike fruits, evergreen rambling yellow-flowered shrub of western China, deciduous rambling shrub widely cultivated for its winter-blooming yellow flowers, a climbing deciduous shrub with fragrant white or yellow or red flowers used in perfume and to flavor tea, East Indian evergreen vine cultivated for its profuse fragrant white flowers, eastern Asian shrub cultivated especially for its persistent foliage, fast-growing and tightly branched hybrid of Ligustrum ovalifolium and Ligustrum obtusifolium, evergreen shrub of Japan and Korea having small dark leaves and flowers in loose panicles; related to but smaller than Chinese privet, erect evergreen treelike shrub of China and Korea and Japan having acuminate leaves and flowers in long erect panicles; resembles Japanese privet, small deciduous shrub having graceful arching branches and luxuriant foliage, semi-evergreen Japanese shrub having malodorous flowers; used extensively for hedges because more likely to stay green that common privet, deciduous semi-evergreen shrub used for hedges, robust upright shrub of mountains of northern India having oblong-elliptic leaves and pale lilac or white malodorous flowers, central European upright shrub having elliptic leaves and upright clusters of lilac or deep violet flowers, small densely branching Asiatic shrub having lanceolate leaves and panicles of fragrant lilac flowers, small tree of Japan having narrow pointed leaves and creamy-white flowers, lilac of northern China having ovate leaves and profuse early summer rose-lilac flowers, large European lilac naturalized in North America having heart-shaped ovate leaves and large panicles of highly fragrant lilac or white flowers, common shrub of eastern North America having small yellow flowers after the leaves have fallen, fragrant shrub of lower Mississippi valley having very small flowers from midwinter to spring, erect shrub or climber of India and China with red olivelike fruit, deciduous unarmed North American shrub with silvery leaves and fruits, deciduous shrubby tree of Europe and western Asia having grey leaves and small yellow fruits covered in silvery scales; sometimes spiny, any of numerous herbs and subshrubs of the genus Lythrum, shrublet of southwestern United States to Mexico having brilliant scarlet flowers, erect or climbing shrub of Brazil with deep pink to red flowers, erect deciduous shrub or tree to 10 feet with maroon flowers; New Zealand, widely cultivated low evergreen shrub with dense clusters of fragrant pink to deep rose flowers, bushy Eurasian shrub with glossy leathery oblong leaves and yellow-green flowers, small European deciduous shrub with fragrant lilac-colored flowers followed by red berries on highly toxic twigs, any of several plants of the genus Rhexia usually having pink-purple to magenta flowers; eastern North America, any of numerous plants of the genus Hypericum having yellow flowers and transparently dotted leaves; traditionally gathered on St John's eve to ward off evil, compact white pubescent shrub of southwestern Europe having pink flowers, shrub having white flowers and viscid stems and leaves yielding a fragrant oleoresin used in perfumes especially as a fixative, perennial of the eastern United States having early solitary yellow flowers followed by late petalless flowers; so-called because ice crystals form on it during first frosts, any of numerous varieties of helianthemums having small rose-like yellow or white or reddish flowers, woody yellow-flowered perennial of southeastern United States, North American decumbent evergreen heathlike plant with yellow flowers, small heathlike plant covered with white down growing on beaches in northeastern North America, desert shrub of southwestern United States and Mexico having slender naked spiny branches that after the rainy season put forth foliage and clusters of red flowers, candlewood of Mexico and southwestern California having tall columnar stems and bearing honey-scented creamy yellow flowers, a strong-smelling plant from whose dried leaves a number of euphoriant and hallucinogenic drugs are prepared, source of e.g.