bramble

[ bram-buhl ]

/ ˈbræm bəl /

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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.

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Origin of bramble

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

Words nearby bramble

Brale, braless, Bram, Bramah, Bramante, bramble, brambleberry, brambling, brambly, Bramley, Brampton

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How to use bramble in a sentence

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.
It’s Time to Start Wearing Jeans Again|Aleta Burchyski|March 17, 2021|Outside Online
They found holes in a wall of thick brambles, and splashed through streams.
‘The Mozart of fungi’: For ages, truffle hunting has been one of the most challenging pursuits on earth. Then the pandemic hit|Bernhard Warner|December 12, 2020|Fortune
Police speculate she traveled almost one mile through bramble before she died.
Shannan Gilbert Body Likely Found, New York Police Say|Christine Pelisek|December 13, 2011|DAILY BEAST
Weed-grown, bramble-infested fields lay cleared of dbris, that had been gathered into heaps and burned.
Dorothy at Skyrie|Evelyn Raymond

As she listened, there flitted through her mind the vision of Liff Hyatt's muddy boot coming down on the white bramble-flowers.
Summer|Edith Wharton
But in Shakespeare's time it was evidently confined to the Blackberry-bearing Bramble.
The plant-lore and garden-craft of Shakespeare|Henry Nicholson Ellacombe
I here join together the tree and the fruit, the Bramble (Rubus fruticosus) and the Blackberry.
The plant-lore and garden-craft of Shakespeare|Henry Nicholson Ellacombe
They made the thorn to spring up where the fir-tree had flourished, and the bramble instead of the myrtle tree.
The Broken Sword|Dennison Worthington

British Dictionary definitions for bramble

bramble

/ (ˈbræmbəl) /

noun

any of various prickly herbaceous plants or shrubs of the rosaceous genus Rubus, esp the blackberrySee also stone bramble

Scot

a blackberry
(as modifier)bramble jelly

any of several similar and related shrubs

verb (intr)

to gather blackberries

Derived forms of bramble

brambly, adjective

Word Origin for bramble

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

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