BUSHES

noun

1. A woody plant distinguished from a tree by its multiple stems and lower height, being usually less than six metres tall; a horticultural rather than strictly botanical category.
2. A shrub cut off, or a shrublike branch of a tree.
3. A shrub or branch, properly, a branch of ivy (sacred to Bacchus), hung out at vintners' doors, or as a tavern sign; hence, a tavern sign, and symbolically, the tavern itself.

noun

1. A tavern or wine merchant.

noun

1. (often with "the") Rural areas, typically remote, wooded, undeveloped and uncultivated.
2. A woodlot or bluff on a farm.