What's the difference between brushy and bushy?

Brushy


Definition:

  • (a.) Resembling a brush; shaggy; rough.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) She has been banned from attending Ukip meetings since publishing last month’s cover lampooning Farage , his beaming face flanked by Al Murray and the Prophet Zebadiah with a shared speech bubble: “I’m the joke candidate.” This kind of strong-arm behaviour seems par for the course: two young chaps saunter in, looking very different from tonight’s retired-double-glazing-magnate-with-small-brushy-moustache style.
  • (2) There are no sandy beaches here; instead the refuge is made up of mostly tidal marshes, mud flats, tidal pools, brushy fields and swamps.
  • (3) Significantly greater prevalence (P less than 0.001) was seen in forested and brushy habitat (39.9%) compared with old fields (2.6%).
  • (4) Gusty winds quickly drove the flames through 800 acres of brushy ridges near Glendora.
  • (5) These objects also appear to have been coloured with loose, brushy paintwork; one might think of early Richard Diebenkorn or Ron Gorchov.

Bushy


Definition:

  • (a.) Thick and spreading, like a bush.
  • (a.) Full of bushes; overgrowing with shrubs.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Although the globular bushy cell axons were not completely filled from the soma of origin to terminal fields in the contralateral brainstem, a number of consistent anatomical features were distinguished in the population.
  • (2) Sadly there's a distinct lack of bushy facial features on show in Germany this summer, although should Gennaro Gattuso steer clear of a razor and Italy go all the way, then he'll surely be eligible to join Batista in the pantheon of hirsute legends.
  • (3) A symptom-modulating RNA associated with tomato bushy stunt virus (TBSV) was investigated with respect to physical and biological properties.
  • (4) The man – a middle-aged commando with a bushy beard – said he had come to Slavyansk "to help".
  • (5) Raspberry bushy dwarf virus (RBDV) has isometric, 33 nm diameter particles and a bipartite RNA genome.
  • (6) In vitro translation of tomato bushy stunt (TBSV)-RNA in a rabbit reticulocyte system resulted in synthesis of five proteins P 18, P 25, P 34, P 35, and P 40.
  • (7) Human rhinovirus 14 has a pseudo T = 3 icosahedral structure in which 60 copies of the three larger capsid proteins VP1, VP2 and VP3 are arranged in an icosahedral surface lattice, reminiscent of T = 3 viruses such as tomato bushy stunt virus and southern bean mosaic virus.
  • (8) Bushy” is the word used most; “nappy” and “kinky” are harsher, coarser words.
  • (9) In contrast, the nuclei of the spherical bushy cells are the same size regardless of presynaptic fiber SR.
  • (10) Applications to negatively stained 50S ribosomes and to cryo-electron micrographs of thin vitrified layers of unstained and unsupported tomato bushy stunt and Semliki Forest viruses are described, and the resulting reconstructions are presented.
  • (11) Criteria were established for identifying unimpregnated bushy and stellate perikarya by means of Nomarski optics, and these criteria were checked by Momarski observations on neurons which had either impregnated dendrites and unimpregnated cell bodies or impregnated portions of perikarya.
  • (12) No sensitive cells were located in the most anterior region of the AVCN, where large spherical bushy cells are located.
  • (13) Both bushy and stellate cells are targets of the inhibitory projection.
  • (14) The man was said to have a long face and bushy eyebrows and he lived in a big house at the end of a dead-end street.
  • (15) Northern blot analysis with cDNA probes to RNA-3 (1 kb) of raspberry bushy dwarf virus (RBDV) revealed extensive sequence homology with RBDV RNA-2 (2.2 kb).
  • (16) A nucleotide sequence is reported for RNA-3, the smallest of the three major RNA species found in particles of raspberry bushy dwaft virus (RBDV).
  • (17) Only bushy-eyebrowed former Chinese premier Zhou Enlai – Zheng Jianshan to friends – actually belongs to the party.
  • (18) Naseer conducted his own defense in articulate, polite English, dressed in a green and black button-down shirt and sporting a large, bushy black beard.
  • (19) The bushy receptors of the frog urinary bladder respond to the effect of 60-minute-long anoxia with a complex combination of morphological.
  • (20) Ultrastructurally, all cases showed vacuolated cells bearing long bushy microvilli and the features were not those of endothelial cells.

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