bramble bush
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5.7
- noun
- /ˈbræmbl bʌʃ/
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mora
- We carefully picked the fruit from the bramble bushes without getting pricked by the thorns.
Examples
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While hiking, we encountered a dense area filled with bramble bushes that were covered in berries.
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The site of a bramble bush, perhaps?
Fiction book (1991) -
There was a man in our town, and he was wondrous wise: he jumped into a bramble bush and scratched out both his eyes.
Blog text (23) -
They're just bramble bushes, ordinarily, but these," and she showed me from the window—
Fiction book (1996) -
The children found ripe blackberries growing on the bramble bush in the garden.
Synonyms
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1.0
A bush with sharp stems that grows small sweet black fruits
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6.0
A rough, thorny bush that often has berries like blackberries or raspberries
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1.3
A bush with thorny stems that makes sweet dark berries you can eat
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8.2
Bramble plants that produce edible berries like blackberries and raspberries
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2.3
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 North American blackberry plant with small black edible berries
A type of blackberry bush that grows in the eastern United States
A low spiny bush that grows in wet ground and has small black berries you can eat
A wild raspberry bush from western North America and Mexico with white flowers and small orange berries shaped like thimbles
A low spreading bush with red berries like a raspberry and prickly stems
A low wild bush that grows along the ground and produces small dark blue berries you can eat
A type of raspberry plant from eastern North America with small black fruit shaped like thimbles
A thorny bush that grows dark red edible berries and comes from crossing a blackberry with a dewberry
A low wild bush that makes sweet dark purple or black berries like blackberries
A bush that produces large dark red berries that taste like raspberries
A large raspberry bush from western North America with pinkish orange berries
A low bush that makes small edible dark berries and has stems that trail on the ground
A small European wild plant that grows along the ground and makes small red berries
A wild bush from western North America that makes red edible berries called loganberries
A wild low bush that grows along the ground and produces edible blackberries
A wild berry plant like a blackberry that grows in southern North America
A low-growing bush that makes small edible berries like blackberries
A low wild plant that makes small black edible berries like blackberries
A low bush with thorns that makes dark edible berries
A low bush that grows along the ground and makes small dark berries like blackberries
A low bush from eastern North America that makes small dark berries
A red berry bush like a raspberry, grown for eating and jam
A bristly trailing plant with small black berries like a blackberry that grows in wet places
A low bushy plant from Europe that makes blue-black berries
A small bush with purple flowers and red fruit you can eat
A bush from eastern North America with purple flowers and red to orange cup-shaped fruit
A low northern plant that makes orange berries you can eat in wet places
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Morphology
The meaning is directly and transparently derived from combining 'bramble' (a woody, thorny shrub bearing blackberries) with 'bush' (a small woody plant); the phrase simply names the type of bush. This compositional, descriptive pattern is straightforward and cross-linguistically common, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will understand it.
Etymology
Bramble bush paints a simple picture: a bramble is a low, tangled plant with sharp thorns and a bush is a small plant. People saw these thorny, berry-filled tangles that could scratch you when you reached for fruit, so bramble bush means 'a prickly shrub' that often has berries.