Definitions
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- adjective Abounding with
bushes andbriars . - adjective botany Having a
compact ,bushy form.
Etymologies
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Latin dumōsus ("overgrown with thorns or briars")
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Examples
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Bemoaning thus, by dumous path, they crushed the cycad's growth,
Dot and the Kangaroo Ethel C. Pedley 1889
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