Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A prickly shrub of the genus Rubus of the rose family, including the blackberry and the raspberry.
- noun A prickly shrub or bush.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To pick brambles or blackberries.
- noun A name common to plants of the genus Rubus, especially and usually in England the common blackberry, R. fruticosus; occasionally (from these plants being armed with prickles), any rough prickly shrub, as the dogrose, Rosa canina.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) Any plant of the genus Rubus, including the raspberry and blackberry. Hence: Any rough, prickly shrub.
- noun (Zoöl.) The brambling or bramble finch.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun UK Common
blackberry . - noun US Any of several closely related thorny plants in the genus
Rubus , includingblackberry andraspberry . - noun Any
thorny shrub . - noun A
cocktail ofgin ,lemon juice , andblackberry liqueur .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun any of various rough thorny shrubs or vines
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The lighthouse island was stencilled in bramble-black on a gold-leaf sea.
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He resumes his work as a shepherd and avoids contact with anything that might be called bramble, hedge, or scrub.
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He resumes his work as a shepherd and avoids contact with anything that might be called bramble, hedge, or scrub.
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Mary is the love of beauty, or of God; the bramble is the stupidity and grossness of the practical world.
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His parable of the reign of the bramble is the earliest example of the kind.
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Here in my present picnic is the suggestive parallel, for even though no such actual episodes as those I have described had been witnessed by me, an examination of the premises beneath my bramble were a sufficient commentary.
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As amongst all the trees and plants of the earth the bramble is the most troublesome, so it is also the most contemptible.
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The bramble is a worthless plant, not to be numbered among the trees, useless and fruitless, nay, hurtful and vexatious, scratching and tearing, and doing mischief; it began with the curse, and its end is to be burned.
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The orthography is doubtful, but there is little question that a kind of bramble-bush is intended.
ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus
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In case it is not, then the "bramble" will have to be regarded as the type of hedge that perhaps enclosed the threshing floor.
ofravens commented on the word bramble
Plath citations: see note at lapwing.
April 14, 2008