Nile River: Physiography of Nile River: …Maryūṭ), Lake Edku (Buḥayrat Idkū), Lake Burullus (Buḥayrat Al-Burullus), and Lake Manzala (Buḥayrat Al-Manzilah).

African art: Sudan and South Sudan: …wall paintings and reliefs; the Burun, for example, paint animal murals reminiscent of rock paintings. The Nuba make mural paintings and fine pottery of clay or cow dung, sometimes embellished with finely painted geometric patterns. The southeast Nuba are particularly famous for the body painting of their young men. Artistic…

zombi: …influence of powerful drugs, including burundanga (a plant substance containing scopolamine; reportedly used by Colombian criminals) and drugs derived from poisonous toads and puffer fish. (See also zombie.)

Burundi, country in east-central Africa, south of the Equator. The landlocked country, a historic kingdom, is one of the few countries in Africa whose borders were not determined by colonial rulers. The vast majority of Burundi’s population is Hutu, traditionally a farming people. Power, however,

Burundi: Finance, trade, and services: The Banque de la République du Burundi is the country’s central bank; it issues the Burundi franc, the national currency, and regulates the operation of national and foreign banks. Beginning in the 1980s, Burundi experienced a growing trade deficit and increasingly heavy dependence on foreign aid…

red and green national flag with a white saltire (diagonal cross) and a central white disk incorporating three large stars. Its width-to-length ratio is 3 to 5.The leading traditional symbol of Burundi was an ancient drum, Karyenda, which had a semidivine status. The mwami (“ruler”) alone could

Burundi: History of Burundi: This discussion focuses on Burundi from the 16th century. For a treatment of earlier periods and of the country in its regional context, see Central Africa, history of.

Kingdom of Burundi, traditional East African state, now the Republic of Burundi. At some time before the 17th century, the Tutsi, a pastoral people, established their dominance over the Hutu agriculturalists living in the area. During his reign (c. 1675–1705) the mwami (king) Ntare Rushatsi (Ntare

Burundi, country in east-central Africa, south of the Equator. The landlocked country, a historic kingdom, is one of the few countries in Africa whose borders were not determined by colonial rulers. The vast majority of Burundi’s population is Hutu, traditionally a farming people. Power, however,

Burundi, country in east-central Africa, south of the Equator. The landlocked country, a historic kingdom, is one of the few countries in Africa whose borders were not determined by colonial rulers. The vast majority of Burundi’s population is Hutu, traditionally a farming people. Power, however,

Burundi, country in east-central Africa, south of the Equator. The landlocked country, a historic kingdom, is one of the few countries in Africa whose borders were not determined by colonial rulers. The vast majority of Burundi’s population is Hutu, traditionally a farming people. Power, however,

Kazakhstan: Kazakhstan to c. 1700 ce: Under Burunduk Khan (ruled 1488–1509) and Kasym Khan (1509–18), the Kazakhs were the masters of virtually the entire steppe region, reportedly able to bring 200,000 horsemen into the field and feared by all their neighbours. The prevailing view is that the rule of Kasym Khan marked…

Cushitic languages: Morphology and grammar: In South Cushitic Burunge, for instance, “selectors” provide up to eight functional slots to mark grammatical categories such as clause type (e.g., conditional, concessive, subject focus, or relative), case (e.g., comitative, instrumental), oblique relative, oblique case focus, tense (e.g., preterite, habitual), sequence, and direction of action. For example,…

Tanzania: Ethnic groups: …Mbugu, the Gorowa, and the Burungi have Cushitic origins. About 500 ce, iron-using Bantu agriculturalists arriving from the west and south started displacing or absorbing the San hunters and gatherers; at roughly the same time, Nilotic pastoralists entered the area from the southern Sudan.

Cushitic languages: Morphology and grammar: In South Cushitic Burunge, for instance, “selectors” provide up to eight functional slots to mark grammatical categories such as clause type (e.g., conditional, concessive, subject focus, or relative), case (e.g., comitative, instrumental), oblique relative, oblique case focus, tense (e.g., preterite, habitual), sequence, and direction of action. For example,…

Burushaski language, language spoken primarily in the Hunza, Nagar, and Yasin valleys of northern Pakistan. It is estimated to have some 90,000 speakers. Burushaski is a linguistic isolate, a language whose genetic relationship to other languages is not yet clear. In this respect it is like Basque,

Burushaski language, language spoken primarily in the Hunza, Nagar, and Yasin valleys of northern Pakistan. It is estimated to have some 90,000 speakers. Burushaski is a linguistic isolate, a language whose genetic relationship to other languages is not yet clear. In this respect it is like Basque,

Burushaski language, language spoken primarily in the Hunza, Nagar, and Yasin valleys of northern Pakistan. It is estimated to have some 90,000 speakers. Burushaski is a linguistic isolate, a language whose genetic relationship to other languages is not yet clear. In this respect it is like Basque,

Burutu, town and port in Delta state, southern Nigeria, built on two sides of the Forcados River, a channel of the Niger River delta, 20 miles (32 km) upstream from the Bight of Benin. It has served as a link between river transport and the sea since the Royal Niger Company established a base there

Burwell v. Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc., legal case in which the U.S. Supreme Court held (5–4) on June 30, 2014, that the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA) of 1993 permits for-profit corporations that are closely held (e.g., owned by a family or family trust) to refuse, on religious grounds, to

Bury, town and metropolitan borough, metropolitan county of Greater Manchester, historic county of Lancashire, England. The River Irwell flows through the borough, which stretches from Pennine moorland in the north to within 4 miles (6.5 km) of the centre of Manchester in the south. It is crossed

Bury: metropolitan borough, metropolitan county of Greater Manchester, historic county of Lancashire, England. The River Irwell flows through the borough, which stretches from Pennine moorland in the north to within 4 miles (6.5 km) of the centre of Manchester in the south. It is crossed by…

Bury Saint Edmunds, town (parish), St. Edmundsbury borough, administrative and historic county of Suffolk, eastern England, northwest of Ipswich on the River Lark. At Beodricesworth, as the town was first called, Sigebert, king of the East Angles, is said to have founded a monastery about 630; its

Bury Saint Edmunds: …and Denmark, founded a Benedictine abbey at St. Edmund’s shrine in 1020. The shrine became a place of pilgrimage, and from it the town took its name in the 11th century. Bury St. Edmunds received a royal charter of incorporation in 1606. In the abbey church the barons swore (1214)…

Group Theatre: …with music by Kurt Weill; Bury the Dead (1936, by Irwin Shaw); Thunder Rock (1939, by Robert Ardrey); and My Heart’s in the Highlands (1939, by William Saroyan).

J.B. Bury was a British classical scholar and historian. The range of Bury’s scholarship was remarkable: he wrote about Greek, Roman, and Byzantine history; classical philology and literature; and the theory and philosophy of history. His works are considered to be among the finest illustrations of

John Bury was a British set designer whose bold, stylized sets—which often incorporated such materials as metal, glass, and brick and featured dramatic architectural structures—were a radical departure from the painted, decorative sets that had characterized traditional British theatre. After

J.B. Bury was a British classical scholar and historian. The range of Bury’s scholarship was remarkable: he wrote about Greek, Roman, and Byzantine history; classical philology and literature; and the theory and philosophy of history. His works are considered to be among the finest illustrations of

Richard de Bury was a scholar, diplomat, and bishop of Durham, who was a noted English bibliophile. After studying at the University of Oxford, Richard joined a Benedictine monastery and became a tutor to the future Edward III of England. Having cultivated an interest in books at an early age,

Buryat, northernmost of the major Mongol peoples, living south and east of Lake Baikal. By the Treaty of Nerchinsk (1689) their land was ceded by China to the Russian Empire. The Buryat are related by language, history, habitat, and economic type to the Khalkha Mongols of Outer Mongolia, the

Buryatiya, republic of Russia in eastern Siberia. Buryatiya lies along the eastern side of Lake Baikal, with a panhandle bordering Mongolia and extending westward beyond the southern end of the lake. It was created in 1923 by the union of the Buryat-Mongol and Mongolo-Buryat autonomous oblasti

Altaic languages: The Mongolian languages: Buryat and Kalmyk are also literary languages written in Cyrillic script. As the result of divergent spelling conventions and differences in vocabulary, written Khalkha and Buryat differ from one another much more than do the closely related spoken dialects on which they are based. That…

Buryatiya, republic of Russia in eastern Siberia. Buryatiya lies along the eastern side of Lake Baikal, with a panhandle bordering Mongolia and extending westward beyond the southern end of the lake. It was created in 1923 by the union of the Buryat-Mongol and Mongolo-Buryat autonomous oblasti

Buryatiya, republic of Russia in eastern Siberia. Buryatiya lies along the eastern side of Lake Baikal, with a panhandle bordering Mongolia and extending westward beyond the southern end of the lake. It was created in 1923 by the union of the Buryat-Mongol and Mongolo-Buryat autonomous oblasti

carrion beetle, (family Silphidae), any of a group of beetles (insect order Coleoptera), most of which feed on the bodies of dead and decaying animals, thus playing a major role as decomposers. A few live in beehives as scavengers, and some eyeless ones live in caves and feed on bat droppings.

India: Neolithic agriculture in the Indus valley and Baluchistan: …same is the case at Burzahom in the Vale of Kashmir, where deep pit dwellings are associated with ground stone axes, bone tools, and gray burnished pottery. Evidence of the “aceramic Neolithic” stage is reported at Gufkral, another site in the Kashmir region, which has been dated by radiocarbon to…

Zoroastrianism: Cultic places: The Farnbag, Gushnasp, and Burzen-Mihr fires were connected, respectively, with the priests, the warriors, and the farmers. The Farnbag fire was at first in Khwārezm, until in the 6th century bce, according to tradition, Vishtāspa, Zarathushtra’s protector, transported it to Kabulistan. Then Khosrow in the 6th century ce transported…

Khosrow I: Patron of culture.: …reign, and the famous physician Burzoe is supposed to have been sent to India by Khosrow to gather Sanskrit books of learning to be translated into the Middle Persian language. The game of chess reportedly was also brought by him from India. Astronomy and astrology flourished at the court of…

bus, any of a class of large, self-propelled, wheeled vehicles that are designed to carry passengers, generally on a fixed route. They were developed at the beginning of the 20th century to compete with streetcars by providing greater route flexibility. The bus was a natural outgrowth of the

Compaq: Setting PC standards: …computer, the PS/2, with a bus that was incompatible with the AT-bus design of earlier IBM PCs. (A computer bus is a set of conductors that enable information to be transmitted between computer components, such as printers, modems, and monitors.) Despite having made its fortune by being 100 percent IBM-compatible,…

rocket and missile system: Multiple warheads: The bus was essentially a final, guided stage of the missile (usually the fourth), that now had to be considered part of the missile’s payload. Since any bus capable of maneuvering would take up weight, MIRVed systems would have to carry warheads of lower yield. This…

telecommunications network: Broadcast network: …nodes typically arranged in a bus, ring, or star topology, as shown in the figure. Nodes connected together in a wireless LAN may broadcast via radio or optical links. On a larger scale, many satellite radio systems are broadcast networks, since each Earth station within the system can typically hear…

the Hollies: …(1964), “I’m Alive” (1965), “Bus Stop” (1966, their first entry into the American top 10), and “He Ain’t Heavy, He’s My Brother” (1969). At their best the Hollies established a clear balance between the various components at play in their music, developing (like their Liverpool contemporaries the Searchers) a…

Bus Stop, romantic comedy in three acts by William Inge, performed and published in 1955. Bus Stop, set in a small town in Kansas, is an expansion of the one-act play People in the Wind. The story concerns the passengers of a cross-country bus who are stranded overnight by a blizzard and congregate

Joshua Logan: Films and plays of the 1940s and ’50s: …basis for Logan’s next film, Bus Stop (1956), in which the director coaxed from Marilyn Monroe what some critics believe to be one of her best performances while guiding Don Murray to an Academy Award nomination for best supporting actor. Even better received was Sayonara (1957), a story of interracial…

telecommunications network: Broadcast network: …nodes typically arranged in a bus, ring, or star topology, as shown in the figure. Nodes connected together in a wireless LAN may broadcast via radio or optical links. On a larger scale, many satellite radio systems are broadcast networks, since each Earth station within the system can typically hear…

Busan, metropolitan city and port, South Korea, located at the southeast tip of the Korean peninsula. It is bordered to the north and west by South Gyeongsang province (do); to the south and east lies the Korea Strait. During the Goryeo dynasty (935–1392) it was named Pusanp’o (Korean pu meaning

Busan: …several colleges and universities, including Busan National University (1946), Pukyong National University (1996), Dong-A University (1947), Silla University (1954), and Korea Maritime University (1945). Busan was the venue for some of the 2002 football (soccer) World Cup championship matches. The Busan International Film Festival, first held in 1996, has become…

Siege of Busanjin, (24 May 1592). In Japan’s Age of Warring States, Toyotomi Hideyoshi had reunited Japan by 1591, but in 1592 he ordered an invasion of Ming China to be carried out through Korea. The Koreans resisted, and a fierce war began. Busan, Korea’s most important port, was the first gain

Burkina Faso: Ethnic groups and languages: …the Samo, the Marka, the Busansi, and the Dyula. Other groups of Burkina Faso include the Hausa and the Tuareg, whose languages are classified as Afro-Asiatic, and the Fulani, whose language (Fula) is a Niger-Congo language of the

Siege of Busanjin, (24 May 1592). In Japan’s Age of Warring States, Toyotomi Hideyoshi had reunited Japan by 1591, but in 1592 he ordered an invasion of Ming China to be carried out through Korea. The Koreans resisted, and a fierce war began. Busan, Korea’s most important port, was the first gain

nuclear power: Economics: …industry is known as the levelized cost of electricity, or LCOE, which is the cost of generating one kilowatt-hour (kWh) of electricity averaged over the lifetime of the power plant. The LCOE is also known as the “busbar cost,” as it represents the cost of the electricity up to the…

Augier Ghislain de Busbecq was a Flemish diplomat and man of letters who, as ambassador to Constantinople (now Istanbul), wrote informatively about Turkish life. Busbecq was the illegitimate son of the Seigneur de Busbecq and was later legitimated. He entered the service of Ferdinand I of Austria,

Augier Ghislain de Busbecq was a Flemish diplomat and man of letters who, as ambassador to Constantinople (now Istanbul), wrote informatively about Turkish life. Busbecq was the illegitimate son of the Seigneur de Busbecq and was later legitimated. He entered the service of Ferdinand I of Austria,

hussar: It consisted of a busby, or a high, cylindrical cloth cap; a jacket with heavy braiding; and a dolman, or pelisse, a loose coat worn hanging from the left shoulder. Several hussar regiments of the British army were converted from light dragoons in the 19th century. The name survives…

Sir Matthew Busby was a British football (soccer) player who achieved acclaim as manager (1945–71), director (1971–82), and president (1980) of the Manchester United football team. Busby enjoyed a fine career as a midfielder with Manchester City (1926–36) and Liverpool (1936–39), reaching the

John Dryden: Youth and education: …classical education under the celebrated Richard Busby. His easy and lifelong familiarity with classical literature begun at Westminster later resulted in idiomatic English translations.

Sir Matthew Busby was a British football (soccer) player who achieved acclaim as manager (1945–71), director (1971–82), and president (1980) of the Manchester United football team. Busby enjoyed a fine career as a midfielder with Manchester City (1926–36) and Liverpool (1936–39), reaching the

Thor: The Simonson era: …and Len Wein with artist John Buscema, carried on in much the same tradition as Kirby and Lee. Throughout the 1970s Thor rarely strayed far from the blueprint that had been established in the Silver Age. Buscema remained the principal artist during much of this time, combining peerless draftsmanship with…

Guardians of the Galaxy: …writer Steve Gerber and artist Sal Buscema. In a story that takes place several years after the events of the original series, Captain America, the Fantastic Four’s Thing, and the Defenders are transported from the 20th century to aid the Guardians. Together they help drive the Badoon from Earth’s solar…

Steve Buscemi is an American actor, director, and screenwriter who is especially known for his portrayals of oddballs and fast-talking criminals in such films as The Big Lebowski (1998) and Fargo (1996). Adept at both comedy and drama and comfortable in independent films and more mainstream fare,

Steve Buscemi is an American actor, director, and screenwriter who is especially known for his portrayals of oddballs and fast-talking criminals in such films as The Big Lebowski (1998) and Fargo (1996). Adept at both comedy and drama and comfortable in independent films and more mainstream fare,

Sicilian Mafia: Tommaso Buscetta became a government witness and revealed to authorities the organization and governance of the Mafia, information that previously could only be guessed. According to Buscetta, each cosca possesses the exclusive right to operate in a specific area, which is respected by the other…

Busch Gardens Tampa Bay, privately owned zoo and amusement park opened in 1959 by Anheuser-Busch, Inc., in Tampa, Florida, U.S. The park’s theme is the continent of Africa. Some 2,700 animals are exhibited at the 335-acre (135-hectare) park. Busch Gardens began as a hospitality center at the

St. Louis Cardinals: …1966 the team moved into Busch Memorial Stadium (renamed Busch Stadium in 1982), which would serve as the franchise’s home until 2005. The team began to play in a new ballpark, also called Busch Stadium, in 2006. In 1970 the Cardinals traded away outfielder Curt Flood, who then sued Major…

NASCAR: …two major national series: the Nationwide Series (founded in 1982 and called the Busch Series 1984–2007), in which race cars that differ somewhat in engine and body size from Cup cars are used, and the Camping World Truck Series (founded as the Super Truck Series in 1995 and called the…

St. Louis Cardinals: …1966 the team moved into Busch Memorial Stadium (renamed Busch Stadium in 1982), which would serve as the franchise’s home until 2005. The team began to play in a new ballpark, also called Busch Stadium, in 2006. In 1970 the Cardinals traded away outfielder Curt Flood, who then sued Major…

Adolf Busch was a German violinist and conductor. A protégé of Max Reger, he became concertmaster of the Vienna Konzertverein at 20 and founded the legendary Busch Quartet after World War I. Forbidden by the Nazis to perform with Rudolf Serkin, his Jewish son-in-law, he moved to Switzerland, then

Adolf Busch was a German violinist and conductor. A protégé of Max Reger, he became concertmaster of the Vienna Konzertverein at 20 and founded the legendary Busch Quartet after World War I. Forbidden by the Nazis to perform with Rudolf Serkin, his Jewish son-in-law, he moved to Switzerland, then

Adolphus Busch was a German-born American cofounder, with Eberhard Anheuser, of the firm later to be known as Anheuser-Busch Companies, Inc., one of the largest breweries in the world. Busch was the youngest of 21 children born to Ulrich Busch, a wealthy dealer in wines and brewer’s supplies.

August Anheuser Busch, Jr. was an American beer baron, president (1946–75) of Anheuser-Busch Companies, Inc., who built the company into the world’s largest brewery. In 1922 Busch was put to work sweeping floors and cleaning vats at the brewery cofounded by his grandfather Adolphus Busch, but by

Ernst Busch was a German actor and singer best known as the leading interpreter of roles created by the dramatist Bertolt Brecht. Busch came from a working-class family, joined the German Communist Party, and took up acting professionally when he lost his job with the Krupp manufacturing company.

Frederick Busch was an American critic, editor, novelist, and short-story writer, whose work often examined aspects of family life from diverse points of view. Busch graduated from Muhlenberg College in 1962 and received an M.A. in 1967 from Columbia University. From 1966 to 2003 he taught at

Frederick Busch was an American critic, editor, novelist, and short-story writer, whose work often examined aspects of family life from diverse points of view. Busch graduated from Muhlenberg College in 1962 and received an M.A. in 1967 from Columbia University. From 1966 to 2003 he taught at

Bolivia: The Chaco War and military rule: …Toro in 1936–37 and Major Germán Busch in 1937–39, they tried to reform Bolivian society. During this so-called era of military socialism the Standard Oil Company holdings were confiscated, an important labour code was created, and an advanced, socially oriented constitution was written in 1938; yet little else was changed.

August Anheuser Busch, Jr. was an American beer baron, president (1946–75) of Anheuser-Busch Companies, Inc., who built the company into the world’s largest brewery. In 1922 Busch was put to work sweeping floors and cleaning vats at the brewery cofounded by his grandfather Adolphus Busch, but by

Wilhelm Busch was a German painter and poet, best known for his drawings, which were accompanied by wise, satiric, doggerel verse. His Bilderbogen (pictorial broadsheets) can be considered precursors of the comic strip. In 1859, after study at academies in Düsseldorf, Antwerp, and Munich, Busch

Anton Friedrich Büsching was a German geographer and educator who helped develop a scientific basis for the study of geography by stressing statistics rather than descriptive writing. Büsching was director (1766–93) of the Gymnasium zum Grauen Kloster in Berlin, where he made significant

accordion: Many credit C. Friedrich L. Buschmann, whose Handäoline was patented in Berlin in 1822, as the inventor of the accordion, while others give the distinction to Cyril Demian of Vienna, who patented his Accordion in 1829, thus coining the name. A modification of the Handäoline, Demian’s invention…

stained glass: 20th century: Matthew’s Church (1966–67) in Leverkusen; Wilhelm Buschulte’s unusually rich colour harmonies in his cycle of nave windows for the Cathedral of Essen (1964) and the choir of the Church of SS. Peter and Paul (1967) in Wegsburg, near Mönchengladbach; and Johannes Schreiter’s almost monochromatic Abstract Expressionist windows for the Church…

biplane: In the mid-1930s Adolf Busemann proposed the supersonic biplane, having a quite narrow gap (space between wings) in which expansion waves and shock waves would interact to reduce drag (the “shape drag” due to the thickness of the airfoil sections). A biplane having one much smaller wing (usually…

Hermann Busenbaum was a Jesuit moral theologian. Busenbaum entered the Society of Jesus in 1619 and was later appointed rector of the colleges of Hildesheim and Münster. His celebrated book Medulla Theologiae Moralis, Facili ac Perspicua Methodo Resolvens Casus Conscientiae ex Variis Probatisque

Hermann Busenbaum was a Jesuit moral theologian. Busenbaum entered the Society of Jesus in 1619 and was later appointed rector of the colleges of Hildesheim and Münster. His celebrated book Medulla Theologiae Moralis, Facili ac Perspicua Methodo Resolvens Casus Conscientiae ex Variis Probatisque

opera: Monteverdi: Gian Francesco Busenello’s libretto brought a new note of realism into opera, particularly in the subtle portrayal of human character, which Monteverdi translated into music with an extraordinary nuance and flexibility of style, depicting a wide range of human emotions. In a prologue and three…

Snoop Dogg: …the funk and R&B release Bush (2015), produced by Pharrell Williams. Snoop returned to rap for Neva Left (2017) and followed up with a double album of gospel music, Snoop Dogg Presents Bible of Love (2018). After that detour, he released the rap album I Wanna Thank Me (2019). In…

shrub: …it may be called a bush. Intermediate between shrubs and trees are arborescences, or treelike shrubs, from 3 to 6 m tall. Trees are generally defined as woody plants more than 6 m tall, having a dominant stem, or trunk, and a definite crown shape. These distinctions are not reliable,…

Bob Woodward: Bush at War (2002) profiled the personalities who shaped the American military response in Afghanistan, while Plan of Attack (2004) covered the period leading up to the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq. (See Iraq War.) State of Denial (2006), a departure from the generally complimentary tone…

bush baby, (family Galagidae), any of more than 20 species of small attractive arboreal primates native to sub-Saharan Africa. They are gray, brown, or reddish to yellowish brown, with large eyes and ears, long hind legs, soft, woolly fur, and long tails. Bush babies are also characterized by the

Australian literature: The century after settlement: “The Sick Stockrider” from his Bush Ballads and Galloping Rhymes (1870) was a general favourite, much admired and much recited. It conveyed a sense of comradeship, mapped a world by a bushman’s kind of detail, and exhibited a stoic sentimentalism that was exactly to colonial taste. Henry Kendall, a poet…

potto, (Perodicticus potto), slow-moving tropical African primate. The potto is a nocturnal tree dweller found in rainforests from Sierra Leone eastward to Uganda. It has a strong grip and clings tightly to branches, but when necessary it can also move quickly through the branches with a smooth

bluestem: virginicus), and bushy beardgrass, or bush bluestem (A. glomeratus), are coarse grasses, unsuitable for forage, that grow in poor soils in eastern and southern North America.

chinquapin: …or Sierra evergreen, chinquapin (Chrysolepis sempervirens) is a small spreading mountain shrub of western North America and was also formerly of the genus Castanopsis.

lespedeza, (genus Lespedeza), genus of about 40 species of plants in the pea family (Fabaceae). All lespedezas are adapted to warm humid climates and are native to North America, tropical and East Asia, and Australia. A number of species are useful as forage and green manure crops, and some are

coleus: Bush coleus, or blue Plectranthus (P. thyrsoideus, formerly C. thyrsoideus), from Central Africa, reaches a height of one metre and produces sprays of bright blue flowers. The leaves have distinctive venation and are often green with white borders.

katydid, (family Tettigoniidae), any of about 6,000 predominantly nocturnal insects that are related to crickets (the two groups are in the suborder Ensifera, order Orthoptera) and are noted for their mating calls. Katydids are also known for their large hind legs and extremely long threadlike

bush dog, (Speothos venaticus), small stocky carnivore of the family Canidae found in the forests and savannas of Central and South America. The bush dog has short legs and long hair and grows to a shoulder height of about 30 cm (12 inches). It is 58–75 cm long (22.8–29.5 inches), exclusive of its

African bush elephant, (Loxodonta africana), one of two living species of African elephants (genus Loxodonta) and the largest of all living elephant species. The African bush elephant is also Earth’s largest living land animal, and it is one of the world’s most famous, being renowned globally for

germander: Bush germander (T. fruticans), a shrub growing to 1.5 metres (5 feet), has scattered pale blue to lilac flowers and lance-shaped leaves. It is native on hillsides of coastal Europe.

bush honeysuckle, (genus Diervilla), genus of three species of low shrubs belonging to the family Caprifoliaceae (formerly Diervillaceae), native to eastern North America. They are frequently confused with the closely related Tatarian honeysuckle (Lonicera tatarica) and other cultivated members of

huckleberry: Major species: Dwarf huckleberry (G. dumosa) extends from Florida to Newfoundland. Box huckleberry (G. brachycera), native to the eastern and central United States, can form huge clones, some of which are thousands of years old, by vegetative reproduction.