Bushman
noun [ C ] (also bushman) uk/ˈbʊʃ.mən/ us/ˈbʊʃ.mən/ -men uk/-mən/ us
sometimes offensive布须曼人（非洲南部土著民族）
a member of one of the first groups of people to live in southern Africa, especially in the Kalahari desert, who used to live as hunter-gatherers but are now mainly farmers
The Kalahari Bushmen have lived on this land for millennia. 卡拉哈里布须曼人已经在这片土地上生活了几千年。
See also: San
mainly Australian English丛林居民
a person who lives in the bush (= a wild area of land)
Naturalist Wyn Jones is an expert bushman. 自然学家温·琼斯是一位布须曼族专家。
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- For thousands of years, African Bushmen have eaten a cactus-like plant to suppress hunger.
- Tomkinson offers non-hunting safaris that focus on experiencing life among native Zulus and bushmen.
- an anthropologist studying the Bushmen of Africa
- Kalahari bushmen, many of whom are illiterate, have had no way to pass on their vast knowledge of wildlife to people outside their culture.