bosk
bosk · bosks
A bushA bush.
UK/bɒsk/US/bɑsk/
Meaning
2 sensesA bush.
(archaic)A thicket; a small wood.
a small wooded area
Origin
From Middle English bosk, busk, variants of bush (“grove, wood; thicket, underbrush; bush;From Middle English bosk, busk, variants of bush (“grove, wood; thicket, underbrush; bush; branch of a shrub or tree”), from Old English *busc (attested only in place names), likely from Anglo-Latin bosca (“firewood”), from Late Latin busca, buscus, boscus (“wood; woodland”), from Frankish and Proto-West Germanic *busk, from Proto-Germanic *buskaz (“bush, thicket”), probably from Proto-Indo-European *bʰuH- (“to become, grow, appear”).
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