bramble

American  

[bram-buhl] / ˈbræm bəl /

noun

1. any prickly shrub belonging to the genus Rubus, of the rose family.

2. British. the common blackberry.

3. any rough, prickly shrub, as the dog rose.

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verb (used without object)

brambled, brambling

1. British. to look for and gather wild blackberries; pick blackberries from the vine.

bramble British  

/ ˈbræmbəl /

noun

1. any of various prickly herbaceous plants or shrubs of the rosaceous genus Rubus , esp the blackberry See also stone bramble

2. 1. a blackberry

   2. ( as modifier )

      bramble jelly

3. any of several similar and related shrubs

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verb

1. to gather blackberries

Other Word Forms

• brambly adjective

Etymology

Origin of bramble

before 1000; Middle English; Old English bræmbel, variant of brǣmel, equivalent to brǣm- (cognate with Dutch braam broom ) + -el noun suffix

Example Sentences

Branches snapped beneath his paws, brambles and leaves shuddered all around him.

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They started upstream, pushing through brambles and tangled rowan and birch.

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The backyard went on for acres and it was filled with mango trees and orange trees and cherry bushes and blueberry brambles.

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They were two hundred feet below the bridge, surrounded by trees and bramble, and there wasn’t a place for a helicopter to land.

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The river was deep and swift running, flanked on the far side by brambles, and lavellans—poison shrew-like creatures, whose bite was deadly—were found in the water.

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