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native bush

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noun

  1. indigenous forest

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Setting and checking traps, replanting native bush, checking corflute for teeth marks and the ground for scat—it’s muddy and exhausting work, and the road to a predator-free 2050 is long.

From Slate • Aug. 8, 2025

Houses perch above the city and harbor among native bush on steep hillsides.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 20, 2023

Contractors preparing the tracks over the winter season say they’ve barely finished clearing the native bush of human faeces and toilet paper in time for the next deluge of hiking boots about to descend.

From The Guardian • Jan. 21, 2018

It is being advertised as "a remarkable seven-hectare utopia" with "three modest buildings dotted amidst the mature native bush".

From BBC • Feb. 13, 2016

For hours we tore through the jungle, up hills steeper than the path of righteousness, following now a few faint foot-prints or trampled bushes, now a hint from some native bush dweller.

From Zone Policeman 88; a close range study of the Panama canal and its workers by Franck, Harry Alverson