像一叢灌木那樣密密往外長
兩個意思其實是同一個形狀,差別只在長在什麼東西上:長在土裡,還是長在臉上、尾巴上。
adjective · B2
A plant that is bushy grows with many branches and leaves close together, so it fills out into a thick, rounded shape instead of growing tall and thin.
枝葉茂密的
Picture one bush by a path. Lots of stems come out of a single place, they push sideways rather than straight up, and they grow so close together that you cannot see through to the other side. The edge is soft and uneven, not a clean line. Bushy is a way of saying something grew into that shape — plenty of it, all spreading , packed tight.
Wiktionary gives the word as bush + -y. The suffix -y means like that thing or full of that thing, so bushy is literally shaped like a bush, which is why the picture sits so close to the surface of every use.
Wiktionary 把這個字拆成 bush 加上 -y。-y 的意思是「像…的、滿是…的」,所以 bushy 字面上就是「長得像一叢灌木」。也因為造字這麼直接,每個用法裡都還看得到那叢灌木。
Wiktionary (kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:1258878406:10506), etymology_text supplied in the evidence packet
One branch
像一叢灌木那樣密密往外長
兩個意思其實是同一個形狀,差別只在長在什麼東西上:長在土裡,還是長在臉上、尾巴上。
adjective · B2
A plant that is bushy grows with many branches and leaves close together, so it fills out into a thick, rounded shape instead of growing tall and thin.
枝葉茂密的