bushels

Grain volume measures

Bushels is the plural of bushel, a unit of dry volume used mainly for agricultural products like grain, apples, and corn.

A U.S. bushel equals about 35 liters; a British bushel is slightly larger.

The word often suggests abundance: bushels of money, bushels of complaints.

The farm produced thousands of bushels of wheat this season.

harvest

wheat

Cereal crop for flour

  • cornCereal grown on cobs
  • applesRound tree fruit
  • grainCereal plant's harvest unit

crop · yield · produce · reaping · threshing · picking · gleaning · orchard · vineyard · silo

measurement

pecks

Light, quick kisses

imperial · metric · quart · gallon · liter · cubic · pound · kilogram · ounce · gram

abundance

plenty

Sufficient quantity, and then some

  • loadsLarge quantities
  • heapsLarge informal quantities
  • tonsLarge quantities, informally

oodles · masses · volumes · countless · overflowing · plentiful · ample · copious · profuse · teeming

market

trading

Exchanging for value

exchange · produce · vendors · auction · supply · demand · futures · export · import · quota

Categories
Opposites
quantity/amount

bushelsmorsels

Small pieces of food

smattering · crumbs · pittance · trickle · nothing

measurement type

bushelspounds

Mass measurement units

tons · ounces · kilograms · weights

measurement precision

bushelsgrams

Metric mass units

ounces · liters · milliliters

Phrases
Family

bushel, bushelful, bushelfuls

Familiarity
Top 100,000
Profile
Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G