buisson

Etymology

French buisson

Noun

buisson (plural buissons)

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

Etymology

From Middle French, from Old French buison, 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”), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *bʰuH- (“to grow”). Cognate with Old Norse buskr (“bush”), Middle High German busch, bosch (“bush”), Middle English busshe. More at bush; bois +‎ -on.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bɥi.sɔ̃/

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Noun

buisson m (plural buissons)

1. (botany) bush

Further reading

• “buisson” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Noun

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

1. Alternative form of buison