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bramble
[ bram-buhl ]
noun
- any prickly shrub belonging to the genus Rubus, of the rose family.
- British. the common blackberry.
- any rough, prickly shrub, as the dog rose.
verb (used without object)
, bram·bled, bram·bling.
- British. to look for and gather wild blackberries; pick blackberries from the vine.
bramble
/ ˈbræmbəl /
noun
- any of various prickly herbaceous plants or shrubs of the rosaceous genus Rubus , esp the blackberry See also stone bramble
- a blackberry
- ( as modifier )
bramble jelly
- any of several similar and related shrubs
verb
- to gather blackberries
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Derived Forms
- ˈbrambly, adjective
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of bramble1
Old English brǣmbel ; related to Old Saxon brāmal , Old High German brāmo
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Example Sentences
Police speculate she traveled almost one mile through bramble before she died.
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Weed-grown, bramble-infested fields lay cleared of dbris, that had been gathered into heaps and burned.
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As she listened, there flitted through her mind the vision of Liff Hyatt's muddy boot coming down on the white bramble-flowers.
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But in Shakespeare's time it was evidently confined to the Blackberry-bearing Bramble.
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I here join together the tree and the fruit, the Bramble (Rubus fruticosus) and the Blackberry.
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They made the thorn to spring up where the fir-tree had flourished, and the bramble instead of the myrtle tree.
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