Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- n. A prickly shrub of the genus Rubus, including the blackberry and the raspberry.
- n. A prickly shrub or bush.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
- n. Common blackberry.
- n. Any of several closely related thorny plants in the genus Rubus, including blackberry and raspberry.
- n. Any thorny shrub.
- n. A cocktail of gin, lemon juice, and blackberry liqueur.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- n. Any plant of the genus Rubus, including the raspberry and blackberry. Hence: Any rough, prickly shrub.
- n. The brambling or bramble finch.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To pick brambles or blackberries.
- n. 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 WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- n. any of various rough thorny shrubs or vines
Etymologies
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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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.
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It led almost straight up the mountain-side beneath over-hanging trees, under fallen timber, and through every kind of bramble imaginable.
ofravens commented on the word bramble
Plath citations: see note at lapwing.
April 14, 2008