bramble
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- noun
- /ˈbræmbl/
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- You push your way through brambles, fallen pines, and kudzu vines.
I thought, hang on a second, blackberries are brambles.
- I thought, hang on a second, blackberries are brambles.
- On the bank, bare brambles catch snow waded with rain, the falls straight down, hissing as it hits the ice.
- That's always the, that's kind of the, the Bramble that you walk through.
Examples
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The children carefully navigated through the thorny bramble to pick blackberries.
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-Do you remember the night you dragged her through the bramble bushes?
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We could thin it out a bit, cut back the bramble.
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From running through the brambles, I should imagine.
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My childhood was one long charge through the brambles of anxiety after that.
Fiction book (1993) -
And that's because brambles will fruit on next year's growth, new growth.
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Robins foraged through brambles near the top of the trail.
Fiction book (2000) -
A half-mile of throat-high raspberry brambles marks a likely bear haven.
Academic text (2011) -
A nest was visible, a thatch of sticks and brambles on a high ledge, but the birds were out hunting.
Fiction book (1999) -
The most frequently encountered plant species were bramble (Rubus fruticosus), dandelion (Taraxacum agg.), and sycamore (Acer pseudoplatanus).
Academic text (2012)
Synonyms
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A bush with sharp stems that grows small sweet black fruits
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A thorny plant like a wild rose or a woody vine
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A bush with many sharp points that often forms a thick barrier
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A bush with thorny stems that makes sweet dark berries you can eat
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A wild prickly bush with blackberries you can eat
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Bramble plants that produce edible berries like blackberries and raspberries
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A woody bush that grows small edible berries on prickly stems
A blackberry bush that bears sweet black or dark purple berries people eat
A small European wild plant that grows along the ground and makes small red berries
A low spreading bush with red berries like a raspberry and prickly stems
A low bush from eastern North America that makes small dark berries
A low spiny bush that grows in wet ground and has small black berries you can eat
A type of blackberry bush that grows in the eastern United States
A wild low bush that grows along the ground and produces edible blackberries
A low wild plant that makes small black edible berries like blackberries
A low bush that grows along the ground and makes small dark berries like blackberries
A low bushy plant from Europe that makes blue-black berries
A wild bush from western North America that makes red edible berries called loganberries
A thorny bush that grows dark red edible berries and comes from crossing a blackberry with a dewberry
A bush that produces large dark red berries that taste like raspberries
A thick, tangled area of prickly bushes where small animals hide
Compounds
How Thorny
Surface Forms
Etymology
Bramble comes from an old English word bræmbel that meant 'thorny bush' and is like the word briar for a prickly shrub. So a bramble is a rough, thorny bush such as a blackberry or raspberry plant.