0 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:
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.
Australian bushmen do not, as a rule, make good walkers—their home has been the saddle.
But it is admitted that the leaders were not bushmen and had had no experience in exploration.
He was a bushman, rough and weather-beaten, with only one peculiarity.
Sometimes the solitary bushman or prospector, looking across a deep valley, saw, nestled amongst the opposite hills, a beautiful meadow of grass.
