{
  "id": "bush.plant",
  "term": "bush",
  "sense": "plant",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 16,
  "arena": "bush",
  "domain": "common",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "a small living growth of matter whose parts are arranged in space",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "growth.development",
      "matter.substance",
      "live.biological",
      "arrangement.spatial",
      "life.biological",
      "little.size",
      "part.relation",
      "space.extent",
      "small.size"
    ],
    "interaction": "the matter grows over time, persists through change by using energy, and forms a structured arrangement of parts in space",
    "novel_properties": [
      "organized living structure",
      "persistent spatial form",
      "bounded growth"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The creosote bush in Death Valley survived 11,700 years by cloning, forming a ring of stems from a shared root system.",
      "domain": "biology"
    },
    {
      "text": "The 'Bush' sculpture at Storm King Art Center, made of steel branches, stands as a human-scale representation of organic form.",
      "domain": "art"
    },
    {
      "text": "In 2019, a power outage in Venezuela cascaded when vegetation encroached on transmission lines, tripping safety systems.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "growth.development",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "bush",
    "bushes"
  ],
  "closed": false,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6,
    "reconciled": {
      "by": "openrouter:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
      "date": "2026-07-31",
      "changed": "components",
      "note": "Added missing 'small.size' to components since definition specifies 'small'; 'small.size' is distinct from 'little.size' in degree and typical usage."
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-bush.plant"
}