bramble

[ bram-buhl ]

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.

verb (used without object)

, bram·bled, bram·bling.

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

bramble

/ 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

verb

1. to gather blackberries

Derived Forms

• ˈbrambly, adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of bramble¹

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

Word History and Origins

Origin of bramble¹

Old English brǣmbel ; related to Old Saxon brāmal , Old High German brāmo

Example Sentences

We lost the sense of mindful intention that comes with changing out of loungewear and into bottoms built not for comfort but for standing up to the rocks and brambles of the outdoors—or for going to an office.

From Outside Online

They found holes in a wall of thick brambles, and splashed through streams.

From Fortune

Police speculate she traveled almost one mile through bramble before she died.

From The Daily Beast

Weed-grown, bramble-infested fields lay cleared of dbris, that had been gathered into heaps and burned.

From Project Gutenberg

As she listened, there flitted through her mind the vision of Liff Hyatt's muddy boot coming down on the white bramble-flowers.

From Project Gutenberg

But in Shakespeare's time it was evidently confined to the Blackberry-bearing Bramble.

From Project Gutenberg

I here join together the tree and the fruit, the Bramble (Rubus fruticosus) and the Blackberry.

From Project Gutenberg

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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