buisson

Borrowed from French buisson.

buisson (plural buissons)

1. A fruit tree trained on a low stem, the branches closely pruned.

Inherited from Middle French buisson, from Old French buison, buisson, boissun (“stand of wild shrubs”), diminutive of Old French bois, bosc (“area planted with trees”), from Frankish *bosk, *busk (“bush”), from Proto-Germanic *buskaz (“bush, thicket”).

• IPA^(key): /bɥi.sɔ̃/

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buisson m (plural buissons)

1. bush
2. brush, thicket (wild vegetation)

• faire buisson creux

• bois

• “buisson”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

buisson oblique singular, m (oblique plural buissons, nominative singular buissons, nominative plural buisson)

1. alternative form of buison