What's the difference between brushy and rushy?

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.

Rushy


Definition:

  • (a.) Abounding with rushes.
  • (a.) Made of rushes.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) All lungs were infected with Protostrongylus stilesi and 104 (84%) contained concurrent infections of P. stilesi and P. rushi.
  • (2) Twelve free-ranging Rocky Mountain bighorn lambs (Ovis canadensis canadensis), each exposed experimentally to 125-1,000 infective third-stage larvae of Protostrongylus stilesi and P. rushi, shed significantly more first-stage larvae in their feces than did control lambs, but showed no clinical signs of illness and had equivalent summer and overwinter survival as control lambs.
  • (3) It emerged on Wednesday that Salman Rushie is among more than 143,000 signatories of the Hacked Off petition calling for statutory underpinning for the new press regulator.
  • (4) Three experimental lambs had 313-402 adult P. stilesi and 0-97 adult P. rushi on necropsy; two control lambs had 255 and 270 P. stilesi and no P. rushi.
  • (5) The publication of Rushie’s 1988 book The Satanic Verses drew the wrath of Iranian religious leaders for its depiction of the prophet Muhammad.

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